{"id":35755,"date":"2025-03-25T02:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T02:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=35755"},"modified":"2025-03-25T02:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T02:02:08","slug":"juan-soto-expecting-the-worst-from-yankees-fans-when-he-returns-to-bronx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=35755","title":{"rendered":"Juan Soto ‘Expecting The Worst’ From Yankees Fans When He Returns to Bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Juan Soto is bracing himself for “the worst” when he returns to Yankee Stadium in May for the first time since he signed with the Mets this offseason.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Circle May 16 on your calendars, baseball fans.<\/p>\n

That’s the day New York Mets\u2014and former New York Yankees\u2014superstar Juan Soto will play in his first game at Yankee Stadium\u00a0in a Mets uniform\u00a0since departing the Bronx for the Queens via free agency and a record contract this offseason.<\/p>\n

And Soto, when asked about what he expects to hear from Yankees fans that day, said he is “expecting the worst” from the Bronx Bombers’ scorned fanbase.<\/p>\n

“You know Yankees fans, they can surprise you with anything,” Soto told Max Goodman of\u00a0NJ Advance Media<\/em>\u00a0following the 6-6 tie with the Yankees in the Mets’ spring training finale on Monday. “So I’m expecting the worst.”<\/p>\n

Soto received an appetizer from Yankees fans who attended Monday’s spring training game at Clover Park in Port St. Lucie, Fla., as some loud boos could be heard, along with some cheers from Mets fans, when his name was announced for his first at-bat of the afternoon.<\/p>\n

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