{"id":14732,"date":"2018-04-23T09:52:09","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T13:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=14732"},"modified":"2018-04-23T09:52:09","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T13:52:09","slug":"is-it-time-to-promote-juan-soto-or-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=14732","title":{"rendered":"Is it time to promote Juan Soto or what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14734\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/SotoJuan-Hagerstown2018-via-minorleagueball.com_.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14734\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14734\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14734\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/SotoJuan-Hagerstown2018-via-minorleagueball.com_-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Soto is *destroying* Low-A right now. Photo via minorleagueball.com\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/SotoJuan-Hagerstown2018-via-minorleagueball.com_-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/SotoJuan-Hagerstown2018-via-minorleagueball.com_-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/SotoJuan-Hagerstown2018-via-minorleagueball.com_-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/SotoJuan-Hagerstown2018-via-minorleagueball.com_.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14734\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soto is *destroying* Low-A right now. Photo via minorleagueball.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I happened to glance at the Hagerstown Suns stat page a couple of days ago to look at the pitching stats &#8230;. and I was shocked by the leading stat-line from the offense.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the offensive charge in Low-A so far this month is none other than uber nats prospect\u00a0<strong>Juan Soto.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Through 4\/21\/18 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.milb.com\/milb\/stats\/stats.jsp?t=t_ibp&amp;did=milb&amp;cid=563\">here was his stat line<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>16 games, 59 At Bats<\/li>\n<li>.373\/.486\/.814 slash line for an astronomical 1.300 OPS.<\/li>\n<li>More walks than Strikeouts (14 versus 13)<\/li>\n<li>5 homers &#8230; and 2 stolen bases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and he&#8217;s doing this as a 19-yr old who doesn&#8217;t turn 20 until October.<\/p>\n<p>Make no mistake; this shouldn&#8217;t be a surprise.\u00a0 LAST year as an 18yr old he put up a .950 OPS in 23 games before missing the rest of the season with a freak injury.\u00a0 So &#8230; how long before he&#8217;s bumped up to see better competition?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I happened to glance at the Hagerstown Suns stat page a couple of days ago to look at the pitching stats &#8230;. and I was shocked by the leading stat-line from the offense. Leading the offensive charge in Low-A so far this month is none other than uber nats prospect\u00a0Juan Soto.\u00a0 \u00a0Through 4\/21\/18 here was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3314],"class_list":["post-14732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natsgeneral","tag-juan-soto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14732"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14735,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14732\/revisions\/14735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}