Mets Juan Soto joins 40-30 club with a rare…
Juan Soto has reached some rarefied statistical air in his first season with the Mets.
The $765 million slugger turned the first participant in workforce historical past to compile at least 40 home runs and 30 stolen bases in a single season with his solo blast in the seventh inning Saturday, but the feat turned more of a footnote as the Mets bullpen flushed another late lead for their eighth straight loss, 3-2 to the Rangers at Citi Field.
“It’s great. … It’s really impressive,” Soto said, “but we have bigger things out there in front of us that we have to go out there and get it.”
Howard Johnson had managed 41 steals along with 36 home runs for the Mets in 1989, but no one ever had completed the feat with at least 40 homers.
Juan Soto hits a home run during the Mets’ 3-2 loss to the Rangers on Sept. 13, 2025 Corey Sipkin for the NY POST
Soto, who has a profession best with 32 steals, also turned just the fifth participant in franchise historical past to go deep 40 instances. He joined teammate Pete Alonso (thrice), Todd Hundley, Carlos Beltran and Mike Piazza.
It marks the sixteenth time in baseball historical past a participant has totaled at least 40 homers and 30 steals in one season — a group that contains Hank Aaron, Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez and Shohei Ohtani.
“For me, it means a lot,” Soto said earlier this week when requested about the likelihood. “It’s part of the journey of your career. But at the end, you’ve just got to think about the team. If you accomplish that, what we’re trying to do here is just help the team as much as I can.”
Juan Soto celebrates after hitting a home run during the Mets’ loss to the Rangers. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST
Soto’s fortieth, a solo blast to proper off Texas lefty Hoby Milner in the seventh prolonged the Mets lead to 2-0. But the Rangers got here back to even the rating with two runs against Tyler Rogers and Edwin Díaz in the eighth before including the go-ahead run against Díaz one inning later to lengthen the Mets shedding streak.
The 26-year-old Soto registered a career-high 41 home runs in his lone season with the Yankees in 2024. He had never managed more than 12 stolen bases in any one season over his first seven years in the majors, but he effectively has been profitable on 32 of 35 makes an attempt (91.4 %) with the Mets.
“It’s all the hard work we’ve been putting in since the beginning of the season,” Soto said, once again crediting first base coach Antoan Richardson for his career-high 32 steals. “Great job by Antoan. I really appreciate what he’s been doing with me and how he’s been working with me.”
Soto also singled with one out in the ninth inning with the Mets trailing by one run, but the Mets have been unable once again to pull out a victory.
“One hundred percent … this is a playoff team,” Soto said. “We just gotta keep with our composure, keep with our heads up and imagine in ourselves and imagine in what we now have.
“Definitely we believe in every single guy in here, trying our best and trying to come through. We’re playing our a– off every night, it’s just not going our way.”
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