{"id":476849,"date":"2025-07-07T11:49:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T15:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/juan-soto-on-not-making-the-all-star-game-i-have-to-be-better\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T11:49:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T15:49:45","slug":"juan-soto-on-not-making-the-all-star-game-i-have-to-be-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/juan-soto-on-not-making-the-all-star-game-i-have-to-be-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Juan Soto on not making the All-Star Game: \u201cI have to be better\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"New York.-<\/strong> One of the most notable surprises of the 2025 Major League season is the absence of Dominican outfielder Juan Soto<\/a><\/strong> in the All-Star Game, which marks his first exclusion since he debuted in the event in 2019. The only exception was in 2020, when the mid-season classic was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\n\nDespite being the highest-paid player in Major League history<\/strong> and having a productive year, his performance in the first two months of the campaign was not enough to secure him a place among those selected by fans, players, and managers.\n\nCurrently, Soto is batting .263 with an OPS of .904<\/strong>, has hit 21 home runs<\/strong> <\/a>and driven in 51 runs<\/strong>, in addition to leading Major League Baseball in walks received with 72<\/strong>. However, these figures did not convince voters to include him in the National League<\/strong> roster for the \u201cSummer Classic\u201d.\n\n\n

Read more: Collective outrage over Juan Soto’s exclusion from the 2025 All-Star Game<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\nConsulted by the New York Post<\/strong>, the star outfielder of the New York Mets<\/a><\/strong> was self-critical and maturely accepted the decision:\n\n“Sometimes you’re going to get in (the All-Star team) <\/a> and sometimes you won’t,” he stated.\n“Apparently I didn’t. I just have to be better.”\n\nSoto acknowledged that his poor performance in the early stages of the season had a decisive weight in the final decision, although he does not give greater emotional importance to the fact of being left out.\n\n\u201cEveryone wants to be an All-Star<\/a> and experience being there, but it didn’t happen this year,\u201d he said. \u201cI am proud to have been able to go for four consecutive years. If I didn’t make it this year, it’s not a big deal. I’ll come back stronger next year.\u201d\n\nWith these statements, Soto demonstrates a work-focused and team-oriented attitude, prioritizing collective performance over individual recognition.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York.- One of the most notable surprises of the 2025 Major League season is the absence of Dominican outfielder Juan Soto in the All-Star Game, which marks his first exclusion since he debuted in the event in 2019. The only exception was in 2020, when the mid-season classic was canceled due to the COVID-19 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":476850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[35481],"tags":[41577,15169,40813,40060],"class_list":["post-476849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-all-star-game","tag-juan-soto","tag-major-leagues","tag-new-york-mets"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-2037","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/mcplsdcewgnmbfyf32fo.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Baseball"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/mcplsdcewgnmbfyf32fo.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}