Juan Soto's Career and the Unmatched Art of Getting on Base

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Major League Baseball fans have had varying opinions over the years of what it takes to be the most proficient hitter on the field. Is it the guy who constantly gets hits and hits over .300 every year, is it the guy who hits more home runs than he gets singles, or is it the guy who can keep getting on base for his team? Baseball is a sport that will never have a consensus on this kind of opinion, but I will be focusing on one of the MLB’s best talents when it comes to getting on base: Juan Soto. Juan Soto entered the league in 2018 and he truly has never looked back. From then on, each and every year he was seemingly getting better and better. Walk rates going up, strikeout rates going down, hitting for power, contact, and getting on base. But, as awesome as it would have been for Soto to keep improving, it is just not likely for an MLB athlete to do that. Soto’s career in baseball so far is heavily defined by elite plate discipline, fantastic bat-to-ball skills, blockbuster trades, and the Soto shuffle. This video is covering Soto’s career so far and why he has created both a historic and modern unmatched style of play. He’s considered one of the best players in baseball every year for a reason.
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"Nationals’ Soto Rejects $440 Million Offer-Biggest Contract In MLB History" by Nicholas Reimann - www.forbes.com/sites/nicholas...
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@ABrandNewBallGame 6 месяцев назад

So, I know I said in the comments of the last video that this would release sooner... But, I did have some stuff come up in the last month, including getting sick which forced me to step away from it for a little bit. Anyways, thankfully no significant Juan Soto news could have possibly happened during that time. Enjoy!

@clarkwing9507 5 месяцев назад

Just a thought as a baseball player, I think the reason his groundball rate is so high is only because he is often late on pitches because he is seeing them deeper in the zone, having an eye like his requires you to see the ball deep, and when youre seeing pitches too far deep and they’re lower in the zone, because of his swing path, those pitches will be driven into the ground.

@rudivanrooijen7611 4 месяца назад

Explain flyballhitter Jim Thome who had a great eye as well....

@davidhearn356 4 месяца назад

@@rudivanrooijen7611completely different swing path to the ball

@rudivanrooijen7611 4 месяца назад

@@davidhearn356 Could it be that just because Soto does not strike out as much, he hits more grounders ?

@bigpictureguys8415 4 месяца назад

@@davidhearn356boom

@Ajjosan 2 месяца назад

@@rudivanrooijen7611 Thome and Sotto eyes are not comparable, Sotto has way better pitch recognition, he struck out way more than he walked

@jordansoviet23 2 месяца назад

Well as a Yankees fan I absolutely love his ability to reach the base by any means. He was instrumental to the first 4 wins incidentally against the Astros to open the 2024 season. Although we lost the sixth game of the season his demeanor completely changed the Yankees hitting philosophy. He's the exact opposite of what we had when Gary Sanchez was there. From 2017-2021 the Yankees are full of strikeout prone hitters that lack plate discipline and devoid of lefty batting.

@teamx-bladz 6 месяцев назад

Imagine hitting like a prime Joey Votto as a kid and still being sort of let down. That's how good Soto is. His established body of work, youth, and insane ceiling will easily earn him a higher current value contract (~$450 million) than Ohtani next off season.

@SenorTortas 6 месяцев назад

That walk stat before the age of 25 is super impressive, as you said, considering he had to play during the shortened 2020 season. And what's insane is that it's not even close

@ABrandNewBallGame 6 месяцев назад

Yeah that’s one of the most absurd stats I found when I was making that part. A thing I wished I mentioned in the video was the legends below him on that list too.

@seraphii72 18 дней назад

@@ABrandNewBallGameone thing that's related to this that i hoped you'd mention is both his absurd 22% walk rate in 2021, being the highest in the statcast era by an absolutely enormous amount for that stat, as well as him being iirc top 3 *alltime* in bb% post-integration

@jakegilpin1145 6 месяцев назад

He’s the only player i would watch few of his at bats and make me feel like play mlb road to the show and try to be discipline like him but it’s so hard sometimes on all star mode, he makes it look Easyyy😆

@ABrandNewBallGame 6 месяцев назад

Taking a ball just off the plate in a 3-2 count in the Show gotta be what it feels like for Soto in real life cause I feel like a God when that happens.

@ofersagi5653 5 месяцев назад

Good job on your videos really good editing surprised you haven't blown up yet Earned yourself a sub.

@ABrandNewBallGame 5 месяцев назад

I'm just trying to put out the best content I can and hope for the best. Even a little bit of exposure means a lot. I appreciate the kind words!

@rishishard4742 3 месяца назад

Its wild how Soto's worst year he had an ops+ of 147, moat guys career highs. Absolute stud

@SuperGalaxy 6 месяцев назад

I love the video game music in the background.

@stephenmcconathy9688 6 месяцев назад

I’m so sad we lost Soto in SD. He was my favorite player two years ago when I first started watching baseball and I watched him go to my favorite team, the Padres. It sucks that he had to go just because Preller threw money at whoever he could last offseason.

@troyjenkins1379 6 месяцев назад

This is a great video man good job

@ABrandNewBallGame 6 месяцев назад

I appreciate it!

@ashinygiratina1519 6 месяцев назад

Adley next season I’m afraid

@DR-cg1tt 3 месяца назад

Dude has a .421 career obp over SIX seasons. People rave over schwarber because he walks so much but hits under the mendoza line, yet this gets overlooked. wild

@valmagdaleno9925 2 месяца назад

chicks love OBP

@veritasinvicta8128 Месяц назад

Observing him every game for the first time as a Yankees fan I actually believe he was underhyped. The guy has an eye as a hitter unmatched in the game.

@DrAnarchy69 5 месяцев назад

Soto being more pull heavy will help him in Yankee stadium with the short right field porch

@ABrandNewBallGame 5 месяцев назад

I don’t disagree, but I’m not sure if that’s the path he wants to go down. We’ll just have to see

@Yeldineyintun 4 месяца назад

Only thing that hurts Sotos 2021 mvp chances were the 50 extra base hits. He’s not fast enough to make all those extra walks mean more than a 70xbh season in most voters minds

@hoppy23 6 месяцев назад

Long term who would you rather have Rac or Soto its closer then what alot of people probably think after last seson

@ABrandNewBallGame 6 месяцев назад

The two of them have been super closely ranked for me over the years, especially since they debuted at the same time. From the end of the 2020-2022 seasons, I would probably say Soto. However, after 2023, I would probably rank Acuña a bit ahead of him in the long term.

@agoogleuser2605 6 месяцев назад

Hard to believe you only have a thousand subs. With this quality I’d think you have a million! Do you have Discord or Twitter by any chance? Would love to talk more ball with you on other platforms.

@ABrandNewBallGame 6 месяцев назад

Thank you I really appreciate it! And right now all I’ve got for social media other than this platform is Twitter, which is @ABrandNewBallG. I also have a link to it in the description. I tweet semi frequently about most baseball stuff going on for those interested.

@mpaulm 2 дня назад

It’s puzzling to me that he still doesn’t have a long term deal.

@ABrandNewBallGame День назад

His agent, Scott Boras is pretty notorious for wanting his players to hit free agency. I’m guessing since the day he became Soto’s agent he’s been adamant that he goes to free agency no matter what the situation.

@pablogutierrez5767 5 месяцев назад

Gleyber, Judge, Soto i’ve seen the vision

@WilliamSt.Clair1399 4 месяца назад

I agree to a certain point about a guy swinging at everything but if you’re telling me you don’t think a team of Vlad Sr’s wouldn’t be the best team to watch you’re fooling yourself.

@AidenG2727 6 месяцев назад

HOFer Juan Soto

@jaredadams989 6 месяцев назад

this guy is gonna be hitting before judge f me

@wonderemporium6094 10 дней назад

Smash 64 😢

@twismpeguero 2 месяца назад

Dominican republic is a US territory? In what Marvel timeline?

@ABrandNewBallGame 2 месяца назад

I’m not sure where or how you heard that. At 3:01 I specifically state, “Soto was born and grew up in Santo Domingo, which is a city in the Dominican Republic, NOT part of U.S. territory.”

@nomercyinc6783 6 месяцев назад

there is literally nothing great or fun about the soto shuffle or his stare downs. theres nothing fun generated towards fans when people look like idiots

@bigpictureguys8415 4 месяца назад

Well that’s just like, your opinion man.

@AndrewCalhounSongs 2 месяца назад

I love the shuffle & gamesmanship with the pitcher.

@jayfeev215 Месяц назад

@@AndrewCalhounSongs I do too!!!!!! I think it's such a double standard that pitchers can absolutely lose their $h!t when they get a big strikeout or pitch out of a tough jam and it's just them being fired up and fierce competitors. However, when non-pitchers pimp homeruns or instances like the Soto shuffle (and he stopped doing the ball-sack grab) it's showing up the pitcher or not respecting the game. Where do people get this arbitrary BS from?!?!?!

@gabrielrockman 3 месяца назад

I'm excited for Juan Soto to be batting in front of Aaron Judge. If you walk as much as he does, you're relying on the batters behind you to drive you in. Aaron Judge is such a fantastic guy to have batting behind someone who is probably going to get on base around 42% of the time.