New York Mets star Juan Soto isn't giving any attention to the recent discourse around his performance and effort level to start the 2025 MLB season.

Soto's teammates have his back amid the slow start to his Mets tenure, and one of them recently opened up on the struggling slugger.

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Memorial Day is widely viewed as the first true benchmark of an MLB season, with enough sample size (nearly two full months) to take stock of certain teams and trends, while also allowing for the rest of schedule to play out.

For the last 10 days, baseball enthusiasts wondered what was wrong with Juan Soto. After signing a 15-year, $765 million contract with the Mets last winter, Soto was expected to be the big man on the team.

Slumping Juan Soto hit a tiebreaking, two-run, bases-loaded double in a three-run fourth inning, and the New York Mets beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-2 in their rematch of last year’s NL Championship Series.

Manager Brandon Hyde was fired, paying the price for the 2023 AL East champions' inexplicable winter inactivity, falling further out of the division race just about every single day, bottoming out at 15-32. The team's 5.45 ERA is the worst mark in the AL and the offense hasn't been much better, ranking near the bottom of baseball in OPS.