Yankees fans can't get enough of the new Juan Soto drama with Mets

New York Yankees fans are wondering if the Mets are running a baseball team or producing a soap opera over in Queens. They just snapped a 12-game losing streak, their longest since 2002, and an event that had SNY field reporter Steve Gelb wearing a garlic necklace and burning sage in an attempt to appease the baseball gods. Just as they finally got right, the now-recovered Juan Soto entered the chat.

Soto has long looked miserable in his new digs. Three-quarters of a billion dollars can buy a lot, but it can't buy happiness. When was the last time Soto was at his happiest playing baseball? Well, he enjoyed team DR's World Baseball Classic run and ranked it up there with 2024 as his happiest moments on the diamond. We all know that was the year that he donned pinstripes.

The superstar outfielder just came back from a calf strain that cost him a little over two weeks of action. In preparation to return and with his team mired in that miserable stretch of play, he revealed the next Mets' controversy. He hadn't spoken to a single one of his teammates while laid up on the IL.

Asked if he had talked to his teammates to try and lift their spirits during the skid, Soto responded, "No, not at all. They’ve been on the road most of the time, so I haven’t talked to them.”

Hey, Juan, just to let you know ... you don't need to be physically near a teammate to talk to them. You can call. You can text. You can send a carrier pigeon. Maybe a smoke signal? Is the Pony Express still a thing?

Yankees fans relishing in Mets' spiral as new Juan Soto drama drops

Soto doesn't look great here, but to be fair, phones work both ways. One can presume from that statement that none of his Mets teammates reached out to check on him, either. Maybe he could have imparted some words of wisdom had they done so.

The real test will be how the Mets players respond now that Soto is back and, at the same time, de facto captain Francisco Lindor is going out with a more severe calf strain of his own. If it comes out that Lindor is reaching out and engaged with his team while rehabbing, and/or his teammates are turning to him for advice, it would throw Soto in an even more negative light.

There were rumblings that the Mets' collapse last season was at least partially due to alleged friction between Soto and Lindor, and if it comes out that there's a drastic difference between how these supposed pillars of the franchise handle communication, the pot will only be stirred further.

What's become clear is that the Yankees are still on Soto's mind, and it's incredibly apparent that he misses the production hitting with protection from Aaron Judge afforded him, as well as missing Judge as a friend and teammate.

The latest is not a good look for the 27-year-old, and the more of these incidents pile up, the more it's evident that he made a mistake. He's got an opt-out after 2029, and the way things are going, it's a good bet that he takes it.

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