Jimmy Sez

The Yankees may have missed out on the Yoshinobu Yamamoto sweepstakes this winter, but they did land a major score by acquiring Juan Soto for a five-player package that included four pitchers. For years now, it's been no secret that the Yankees need a quality left-handed bat to balance out their lineup. In Soto, they didn't just get a quality bat but a transcendant one that could potentially get the Yankee offense back to the top of the American League. Just how good is Soto? Let's look at this from a number of different angles to put it in perpsective. For the traditionalists The 25-year old Soto has played in only six seasons but has already proven to have one of the greatest batting eyes in baseball history in that short time. In each of the past three seasons he has drawn at least 130 walks, leading the majors each time. He ranked in the top ten in the NL in walks for the three seasons before that and since 2018 has walked a total of 640 times. Bryce Harper's 504 in...