New York Mets manager Carlos Mendoza hasn’t done a lot of gloating over landing right fielder Juan Soto this offseason on a 15-year contract that can reach $800 million — at least not publicly.

But that doesn’t mean he didn’t have a little fun at the expense of New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone, his longtime friend, in a more subtle way. On Tuesday, Boone explained to WFAN how it went down at the Baseball Writers’ Association of America Dinner on Saturday, first saying Mendoza has kept to himself before acknowledging the jab.

“No, no, so Mendy’s been very, very delicate with that,” Boone said. “Like we actually had dinner — him and his wife and mine and my wife in the city this past weekend.

“And then we sat next to each other on the dais at the writer’s dinner. The yearbook for the writer’s dinner — we’re kind of thumbing through it, about halfway through — and he turns it over on the back and it’s Soto and all the Mets stuff, and he just kind of slides it over to me like … I’m like, ‘C’mon, man!’

Boone had a good laugh about it all. Mendoza was Boone’s bench coach from 2020-23 before Mendoza was hired as the Mets’ coach to start the 2024 campaign, which was the end of a 15-year run for him in the Yankees’ organization.

After outfielder Aaron Judge took heat for revealing he hadn’t spoken to Soto at all to try to recruit him back to the Yankees in free agency, Boone was asked the same question on WFAN.

“Not a lot after we met with him,” Boone said. “So when we went to California to meet with them that was my big time to really make sure he understood how I felt, how we felt, my expectations and vision of him being there moving forward.”