The Washington Nationals gifted baseball fans with an incredibly cool video.
That video, uploaded to their social media accounts, showed us the “Juan Soto experience.”
What does that even mean?
Well, most fans surely wanted to know what happens in a Soto at-bat.
The Nats gave us a glimpse.
This entire video is Juan Soto in a nutshell.
The Shuffle
The catcher conversation
The homer
The stare downLegend. pic.twitter.com/uMsjbqecjn
— Washington Nationals (@Nationals) July 14, 2022
As you can see, it all starts with plate discipline.
Soto has no peers when it comes to not swinging at balls and swinging at strikes.
He has incredible knowledge of the strike zone, which allows him to identify borderline pitches as strikes or balls.
He Does It All With Swagger
The first sequence of the video has him taking a low pitch for a ball and “shuffling”, something he does every now and then.
After that, there is a brief conversation with the catcher: it’s part of the game, they probably talk back and forth at some point in the game.
In this case, judging by what happens next, we would guess the catcher said he couldn’t hit a homer or something along those lines.
He proceeded to his a laser that left the yard, and immediately turned around to give the catcher a stare.
That’s the Soto experience in a nutshell: swagger, confidence, and an incredible talent to discern balls from strikes and hit a baseball with power to all fields.
After a somewhat sluggish start of the season, he has been turning things around recently.
He has a .896 OPS and 19 homers for the season, but his line over the last seven games is an incredible .440/.563/.960 with four round-trippers.
He was born to take at-bats in big spots.
With 117 homers before even turning 24, he is destined for stardom for a long, long time.
