{"id":42923,"date":"2025-03-22T01:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T01:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=42923"},"modified":"2025-03-22T01:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T01:36:09","slug":"breaking-mets-juan-soto-faces-nationals-with-his-younger-brother-wearing-no-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=42923","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Mets&#8217; Juan Soto faces Nationals with his younger brother wearing No. 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/ybmedia\/image\/upload\/c_crop,h_658,w_1175,x_378,y_28\/c_fill,f_auto,h_900,q_auto,w_1600\/v1\/m\/a\/7\/a77d0c3623ed6b3f81d831a8886b9cbba18b14cb\/watch-mets-juan-soto-faces-nationals-his-younger.jpg\" alt=\"Watch: Mets' Juan Soto faces Nationals with his younger brother wearing No. 22\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some Nationals fans had to do a double-take on Thursday night when they saw a Washington player with the last name &#8220;Soto&#8221; donning No. 22 trot onto the field.<\/p>\n<p>It was Juan Soto&#8217;s 19-year-old brother, Elian. He had been called up from the Nats&#8217; minor league camp to play against Juan, who signed a lucrative 15-year, $765M deal with the New York Mets in December.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Elian Soto enters the game for the Nationals wearing the No. 22. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RcYSa1K7QF\">pic.twitter.com\/RcYSa1K7QF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jessica Camerato (@JessicaCamerato) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JessicaCamerato\/status\/1902885419211014360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Elian played left field late in Washington&#8217;s 10-3 loss to New York, opposite the field position his brother played for nearly five years in the nation&#8217;s capital.<\/p>\n<p>Juan had already been substituted out when Elian took the field, going 1-for-3 with a run scored, a walk and a strikeout. Elian had less luck in his spring training debut, striking out in his only at-bat.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s doubtful that the younger Soto will crack the Nationals roster at any point this season. Unlike Juan, he&#8217;s not quite ready for the big leagues at 19.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Nationals fans had to do a double-take on Thursday when they saw a Washington player with the last name &#8220;Soto&#8221; donning No. 22 trot onto the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":42924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING: Mets&#039; Juan Soto faces Nationals with his younger brother wearing No. 22 - NEWS USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=42923\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING: Mets&#039; 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