How Far Will Nationals Star Juan Soto Go?

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🗓️ 29 March 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Nationals superstar Juan Soto has won a World Series, made a highlight reel’s worth of big hits, and holds a batting title. All that at 22 years old. A fan favorite in Washington, Soto is known for his swagger and disregard for baseball’s traditional decorum, as well as his megawatt smile. Jeff Passan recently talked with Soto for ESPN’s Cover Story, and he joins the show to explain how Soto’s swing - and his presence - are changing baseball for good. Then, Bill Barnwell runs through the biggest NFL news in trades and free agency. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Jeff Passon, what does a Juan Soto at bat look like?
0:08.1	Oh, my goodness.
0:10.2	A Juan Soto at bat is the most glorious thing in baseball right now.
0:16.2	There's the pitch, swinging a fly ball to left center field.
0:18.8	This is way back.
0:19.8	This one is going.
0:21.2	Going.
0:22.4	It is gone.
0:22.9	Goodbye.
0:26.2	It's a two-run homer for one Soto.
0:27.5	Bang!
0:35.9	It is someone who is at 22 years old, seemingly at the peak of his powers.
0:42.2	It is somebody who loves competition to the point where he will do everything possible to gain an advantage.
0:46.8	They call it the Soto Shuffle, but he does it to let the guys know that that batters box is Sotos.
0:52.9	He will be standing there in the batters box and Soto's. He will be standing there in the batters box,
0:56.4	and he will stare, and he will lick his lips,
0:59.9	and he will shake his hips,
1:01.5	and he will shuffle his legs,
1:03.8	and he will do everything he possibly can
1:06.6	to burrow himself into the psyche of that pitcher on the mound
1:10.2	and make him think. And the psyche of that pitcher on the mound and make him think.
1:12.6	In the second that that pitcher thinks, I'm facing Juan Soto, he has lost.
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