{"id":116785,"date":"2025-08-03T23:33:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T23:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/116785\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T23:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T23:33:12","slug":"how-juan-soto-became-one-of-baseballs-most-efficient-base-stealers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/116785\/","title":{"rendered":"How Juan Soto became one of baseball&#8217;s most efficient base-stealers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Juan Soto added to his career-best stolen base total in <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/01\/sports\/mets-skid-hits-four-games-after-extra-innings-loss-to-giants\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Friday night\u2019s loss to the Giants<\/a> when he easily swiped second base with ex-teammate Jose Butt\u00f3 on the mound.<\/p>\n<p>Soto had such a good jump, there wasn\u2019t even a play at second, with Soto going in standing up. <\/p>\n<p>Soto ended up being stranded at second, as the Mets\u2019 issues with runners in scoring position have continued, but it was another example of this new aspect of the outfielder\u2019s game \u2014 and a somewhat unexpected one in his eighth major league season.<\/p>\n<p>Soto entered Sunday having swiped 16 bases in 17 attempts after never stealing more than a dozen in a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Juan Soto added to his career-best stolen base total in Friday night\u2019s loss to the Giants when he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":116786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,3693,1266,405,403,1305,5226,5225,5228,5227,62,2225,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-116785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-juan-soto","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-mets","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-sports-plus","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114967452229914016","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}