Contemplating the best way final season unfolded and the best way the Mets folded — a clubhouse that didn’t show to be a power couldn’t assist the membership avert a $340 million, playoff-less fiasco — onlookers might be paying shut consideration to indicators of unity or discord round this 12 months’s group.
An early signal that provides some hope, then, is how usually Juan Soto and Carson Benge are round one another.
Their lockers are close by, within the far nook of the clubhouse at Citi Area. They’ve a number of handshakes which are nonetheless a piece in progress — “We’re making an attempt to determine the most effective one,” Soto mentioned. And after Benge’s first main league dwelling run, it was Soto ready on the finish of a dugout high-five line not with a handshake however with an enormous hug.
All spring, Benge mentioned, it felt as if Soto had taken him below his wing. That feeling has transitioned because the season has begun for a participant who’s now much less a prospect and extra a serious leaguer simply making an attempt to assist the Mets win.
