Juan Soto is a Dominican baseball player and free agent who has played in MLB for the Washington Nationals, San Diego Padres, and New York Yankees. In December 2024, he joined the New York Mets and signed a record-breaking $765 million contract.
Juan joined the Nationals as an international free agent in 2015 and debuted in 2018. He was the NL Rookie of the Year runner-up that year. In 2019, he helped the Nationals win their first World Series and earned the Babe Ruth Award. Soto won the NL batting title in 2020 and he is a four-time All-Star and has received five Silver Slugger Awards.
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Juan José Soto Pacheco was born on October 25, 1998, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and is 26 years old as of 2024.
Juan Soto Education
Juan Soto studied at Fresno City College and California State University and earned a B.A. in English in 1974. He learned from poet Philip Levine. Later, he completed an M.F.A. in poetry at the University of California and became the first Mexican-American to do so. 1thecribnote
Juan Soto Family Roots
Juan José Soto Pacheco was born to Juan Soto, Sr., a standout baseball player, and Belkis Pacheco. He has a sister and a brother. His brother is a third baseman and outfielder who signed with the Nationals organization as an international free agent. His father was a local men’s league catcher and encouraged his sons to make baseball their passion. 2thesun
Juan Soto Wife
Juan as of now is unmarried and has no daughter or child and he keeps his relationship status close.
Juan Soto Career Journey
Juan Soto signed with the Washington Nationals in July 2015 as an international free agent and received a $1.5 million signing bonus. He began his professional career in 2016 with the Gulf Coast League Nationals, where he earned the league’s MVP award. Later that year, he briefly played for the Auburn Doubledays, hitting .429 in six games.
In 2017, Soto started with the Hagerstown Suns but suffered an ankle injury in May, which ended his season early. By mid-2017, MLB Pipeline ranked him as the Nationals’ second-best prospect.
Soto began 2018 as a top minor-league prospect. He played for the Hagerstown Suns, Potomac Nationals, and Harrisburg Senators, excelling at each level with high batting averages. After hitting .323 in eight games with Harrisburg, the Nationals called him up to the majors on May 20, 2018.
On March 22, 2022, Juan signed a $17.1 million contract with the Nationals. On April 12, he hit his 100th career home run and became the youngest player in Nationals history and the eighth-youngest in MLB history to reach this milestone at 23 years old.
During the 2022 season, Juan turned down a 15-year, $440 million contract extension from the Nationals. He was selected for the MLB All-Star Game won the Home Run Derby and became the second-youngest winner in history.
On August 2, 2022, the Nationals traded Juan Soto and Josh Bell to the Padres for six players, including CJ Abrams and MacKenzie Gore, and then Soto played against the Nationals in Washington and received a 45-second standing ovation. For the rest of the 2022 season, he hit .236 with 6 home runs and 16 RBIs in 51 games for the Padres.
In 2023, Soto avoided arbitration by signing a one-year, $23 million deal with the Padres. He played all 162 games, hitting .275 with 35 home runs, and 109 RBIs, and again led MLB with 132 walks.
On December 6, 2023, the Padres traded Juan Soto and Trent Grisham to the Yankees for five players and Soto then signed a one-year, $31 million contract with the Yankees.
Soto started 2024 strong and earned American League Player of the Week honors after the first week. He won the award again in June after a standout performance, including two home runs in a game against the Giants. He was named a starting outfielder for the AL in the All-Star Game, marking his fourth All-Star appearance and first for the AL.
In August, Soto hit three home runs in a game against the White Sox and became the sixth Yankee to homer in four straight at-bats. He also set a career-high for home runs in a season with his 36th and became the first Yankee since 1961 to homer in eight straight hits.
On September 17, Soto hit his 40th home run of the season, reaching 200 career home runs and becoming the seventh-youngest player to achieve that milestone.
In the postseason, Soto hit a key three-run homer in Game 5 of the ALCS, helping the Yankees reach the World Series for the first time since 2009. The Yankees lost to the Dodgers in five games. Soto batted .327 in the playoffs with four home runs and nine RBIs. He became a free agent after the season. 3wikipedia
Juan Soto’s Net Worth
Juan has an estimated net worth of around a billion US dollars and he seems very close to it as he recently signed a 765$ million agreement with the New York Mets which broke the record of many renowned sports figures. 4livemint
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