{"id":14813,"date":"2025-07-05T17:38:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T21:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/juan-soto-explodes-player-of-the-month-with-mets-silences-critics-and-dominates-mlb\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T17:38:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T21:38:52","slug":"juan-soto-explodes-player-of-the-month-with-mets-silences-critics-and-dominates-mlb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/juan-soto-explodes-player-of-the-month-with-mets-silences-critics-and-dominates-mlb\/","title":{"rendered":"Juan Soto Explodes: Player of the Month with Mets, Silences Critics and Dominates MLB"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Juan Soto Reigns Supreme: National League Player of the Month<\/h2>\n\n\nDominican outfielder Juan Soto has proven his worth with a stellar performance, silencing his critics and establishing himself as one of the most outstanding players of the season. His explosive performance earned him recognition as Player of the Month for June in the National League, marking a milestone in his career.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Whether good or bad the comments, I appreciate you all paying attention to me.<\/p><cite>Juan Soto<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThese words reflect Soto&#8217;s maturity and determination, who has responded to initial doubts with an overwhelming performance.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Numbers That Impress<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Since May 31, Soto has displayed impressive statistics that highlight his dominance at the plate:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>At Bats:<\/strong> 107<\/li><li><strong>Average:<\/strong> .336<\/li><li><strong>Home Runs (HR):<\/strong> 13<\/li><li><strong>Runs Batted In (RBI):<\/strong> 24<\/li><li><strong>Runs:<\/strong> 30<\/li><li><strong>OPS:<\/strong> 1.220<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nIn June, Soto batted .322, with an OBP of .474, a slugging percentage of .722 and an OPS of 1.196, the best among all Major League hitters with at least 75 plate appearances. In addition, he hit 11 home runs, tying for the third-most in a single calendar month in Mets history.\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EJLantigua\/status\/1810024194989603586\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Words from Juan Soto for those worried or critical of his numbers in the first months of the season:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nAlthough this is his first Player of the Month award, his current performance positions him among the top five players in OPS in all of MLB as of the beginning of July.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juan Soto Reigns Supreme: National League Player of the Month Dominican outfielder Juan Soto has proven his worth with a stellar performance, silencing his critics and establishing himself as one of the most outstanding players of the season. His explosive performance earned him recognition as Player of the Month for June in the National League, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[1117,345,755,5282],"class_list":{"0":"post-14813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-home-runs","9":"tag-juan-soto","10":"tag-mets","11":"tag-player-of-the-month"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}