Juan Soto, despite his record-breaking contract with the Mets, has experienced a slow start to the season, leading to questions and concerns about his performance.
Scott Boras, Soto's agent, visited Soto at Citi Field to offer support and reassurance, emphasizing that adjusting to a new team and role takes time for a franchise player.
Boras framed Soto's current performance as a normal part of the adjustment period for a player of his caliber, highlighting the considerable pressure and expectations that come with such a large contract.
Scott Boras insisted he had come cross country for a charity event. But somehow here he was, entering Citi Field nearly four hours before the first pitch of a Thursday matinee. This felt like the mission; the reason he had traveled 3,000 miles.
The sport’s most famous player representative described the check-in as a logical component of a mega-contract — the visit at a time of early struggle to reassure all will be just fine. So, yes, he had plenty of clients on both the Diamondbacks and Mets, but charity event elsewhere or not, Boras had come to chat — “a good conversation,” he called it — with the player for whom he had negotiated the longest, largest contract in history.
For one month into a 15-year deal, Juan Soto had not hit like a $765 million man in his new Queens address. His struggles, his words about not having Aaron Judge behind him, the questions whether to boo or cheer him at home, were more present than clutch hits.
“Part of greatness is a period of time that is the franchise player adjustment,” Boras said.
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