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Welcome to Juan Soto’s MLB

Originally Published: March 26, 2021
By Jeff Passan

He licks his lips and wags his hips and stares with contempt at the man standing 60 feet away from him, and anyone who sees this routine might think Juan Soto is, at best, a preening jerk. And, to be fair, this is not an entirely inaccurate read on the situation, not as Soto peacocks about the 4-foot-wide-by-6-foot-deep batter's box, the most valuable 24 square feet of real estate on a baseball field.

It is, unequivocally, his space, so much so that at one point earlier in his career, ...

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