Indeed, my angst was misplaced. This said, the Mets haven't exactly crushed it of late.

Soto's been on a tear this month: He's batting .325 with 10 HRs, 18 RBIs, OBP .485, Slugging .753, OPS+ 241 in June

After his 2nd two-homer game in 5 games last night, he has surpassed Jimmie Foxx (who started playing for the Athletics at age 17) for the most muli-Home Run games before turning 27 years old, by doing it 27 times.

Here are top tens for a couple of categories for the season so far:
Times on Base: 1) Judge: 164 2) Ohtani; Devers: 144 4) Tucker: 141 5) Soto: 140 6) Alonso: 135 7) Schwarber: 134 8) Guerrero; Wood 133 10) Raleigh: 131

OPS+: 1) Judge: 226 2) Raleigh: 198 3) Ohtani: 183 4) Will Smith: 161 5) Tucker: 167 6) Alonso: 162 7) Wood: 161 8) Soto 157 9) Aranda: 155 10: Carroll: 149

Soto's career OPS+ is 160, so he is just hair off of his usual pace. That career OPS+ of 160 in the top 20 EVER, and is higher than such players as Musial, Ohtani, DiMaggio, Mays, and Aaron.

Nice to have Soto and Alonso in the top 10 for both categories.

And WAR of 3.5 which is 6th in the NL for position players. Pretty sure 29 other teams would take that if the Mets are ready to DFA him.

Had Yankee fans ask me with a straight face in February "are you glad the Mets got him?"

"NO . . . I'm afraid he's going to cut into playing time for Travis Jankowski."

Jankowski does have better hair than Soto