Juan Soto
Dominican baseball player
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| 2025 | Soto signed with the New York Mets and gave teammate Brett Baty a Chevrolet Tahoe with 'thanks for #22' written on the rear windshield to secure his preferred uniform number. |
| 2025 | Signed a record-breaking 15-year, $765 million contract with the New York Mets, the largest contract in professional sports history. |
| March 28 2025 | Soto hit his first home run as a New York Met, a solo shot to right field against Houston Astros pitcher Hunter Brown, contributing to a 3-1 Mets victory. |
| December 11 2024 | Juan Soto signed a record-breaking 15-year, $765 million contract with the New York Mets, which became the largest contract in professional sports history. The contract included a $75 million signing bonus and a unique club option structure allowing potential salary increases or an opt-out after the 2029 season. |
| October 19 2024 | Hit a crucial three-run homer in the 10th inning of Game 5 of the ALCS, helping the Yankees defeat the Cleveland Guardians and advance to the World Series for the first time since 2009. The Yankees ultimately lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers in five games. |
| September 17 2024 | Hit his career-milestone 40th home run and 200th career home run in an 11-2 victory over the Seattle Mariners, becoming the seventh-youngest player in MLB history to reach 200 home runs at 25 years and 328 days old. Also became the first player to hit a home run in all 30 current Major League stadiums. |
| August 21 2024 | Hit his 36th home run of the season in an 8-1 victory over the Cleveland Guardians, setting a new career-high and becoming the first Yankee in the expansion era to hit a home run in 8 straight hits. |
| August 13 2024 | Hit three home runs in a 4-1 victory over the Chicago White Sox, recording all four RBIs in his first three-home run game of his career. |
| June 3 2024 | Named AL Player of the Week for the second time, following a week where he slashed .435/.500/1.000 with two home runs against the San Francisco Giants, including go-ahead runs in the ninth inning. |
| April 1 2024 | Named American League Player of the Week for the first week of the season, his first such title since moving from the National League. |
| March 28 2024 | During Opening Day series (March 28-31), Soto performed exceptionally, going 9-for-17 with a home run, a double, four RBI, and an outfield assist by throwing out the tying run at the plate. |
| 2023 | Represented the Dominican Republic national team in the World Baseball Classic, leading or tying for the team lead in multiple offensive categories including hits, doubles, home runs, walks, and OPS. Recorded an outfield assist against Nicaragua and hit a home run during a knockout loss to Puerto Rico. |
| 2023 | Played in all 162 games for the Padres, leading the MLB with 132 walks and achieving a .275 batting average with 35 home runs and 109 RBIs. |
| December 6 2023 | Traded from the San Diego Padres to the New York Yankees, along with Trent Grisham, in exchange for Michael King, Drew Thorpe, Jhony Brito, Randy Vásquez, and Kyle Higashioka. |
| January 2023 | Soto's younger brother Elian signed with the Washington Nationals as an international free agent. |
| January 13 2023 | Signed a one-year, $23 million contract with the Padres, avoiding salary arbitration. |
| 2022 | Reached the NLCS with the Padres, hitting two home runs in the series before losing to the Philadelphia Phillies in five games. |
| 2022 | Soto was named to the 2022 MLB All-Star Game and won the 2022 MLB Home Run Derby, becoming the second-youngest winner after Juan González (who won in 1993). |
| 2022 | Soto reportedly rejected a 15-year, $440 million contract extension offer from the Washington Nationals. |
| August 12 2022 | Returned to Washington and received a 45-second standing ovation from the crowd during his first game with the Padres against his former team. |
| August 2 2022 | Traded from the Washington Nationals to the San Diego Padres, marking a significant change in his early career trajectory. |
| April 12 2022 | Soto hit his 100th career home run against Atlanta Braves pitcher Bryce Elder, becoming the youngest player to reach this milestone in Nationals history and the eighth-youngest in MLB history at 23 years and 169 days old. |
| March 22 2022 | Juan Soto agreed to a $17.1 million contract with the Washington Nationals, avoiding arbitration. |
| 2021 | Donated $200,000 to support Dominican athletes participating in the Summer Olympics. |
| 2021 | Soto became the Nationals' everyday right fielder. |
| 2021 | Named to the All-MLB First Team and won the National League Silver Slugger Award for the outfield for the second consecutive season. |
| 2021 | Batted .313/.465/.534 with 29 home runs, 95 RBIs, and 111 runs scored. Led the major leagues in walks with 145, intentional walks with 23, and walk percentage at 22.2%. |
| 2021 | Finished as runner-up in the National League Most Valuable Player Award (NL MVP) voting, losing to Bryce Harper. |
| July 4 2021 | Named a reserve to the National League All-Star Team, receiving his first All-Star selection. He also participated in the Home Run Derby, upsetting top-seeded Shohei Ohtani in double-overtime before losing to Pete Alonso in the semifinal. |
| May 4 2021 | Soto was reinstated to the active roster after recovering from his shoulder strain. |
| April 20 2021 | Soto was placed on the 10-day injured list due to a left shoulder strain. |
| April 6 2021 | In the Nationals' first game of the season, Soto hit a walk-off single against Will Smith of the Atlanta Braves, marking his first career walk-off hit. |
| 2020 | The Nationals began deploying Soto as their starting right fielder late in the season. |
| 2020 | By the end of the season, Soto had hit 69 career home runs, with an exactly even distribution of 23 home runs to left field, 23 to center field, and 23 to right field. |
| 2020 | Won his first career Silver Slugger Award and was named to the All-MLB First Team. |
| 2020 | Won the National League batting title with a .351 average. |
| August 17 2020 | Named National League Player of the Week for the first time in his career. |
| August 12 2020 | Hit another home run, setting a new personal best in the same series against the Mets. |
| August 10 2020 | Hit the longest home run of his career during a series against the New York Mets at Citi Field. |
| August 4 2020 | Soto returned to action after multiple negative COVID-19 tests, believing his initial positive test was a false positive. |
| July 23 2020 | Juan Soto tested positive for COVID-19 just before the opening game of the shortened MLB season, causing him to miss the first week of play. |
| 2019 | Soto was a finalist for the Gold Glove Award as a left fielder. |
| October 2019 | In Game 1 of the National League Championship Series, Soto engaged in a memorable on-field interaction with Cardinals pitcher Miles Mikolas involving his signature batting routine, with Mikolas responding by grabbing his own crotch after retiring Soto. |
| October 2019 | Soto helped lead the Washington Nationals to their first World Series championship, playing a crucial role in the team's historic postseason run. |
| October 25 2019 | Played in his first World Series on his 21st birthday, fulfilling a prediction made by his father approximately 10 years earlier. Played for the Washington Nationals in Game 3 against the Houston Astros. |
| August 19 2019 | Became the fourth player in MLB history to record 100 extra-base hits before his 21st birthday, joining an elite group of players including Mel Ott, Tony Conigliaro, and Bryce Harper. |
| 2018 | During his rookie season, Soto developed the 'Soto Shuffle', a distinctive batting box routine designed to psychologically affect pitchers by creating an unconventional pre-batting stance. |
| 2018 | Soto was named NL Rookie of the Month in June, July, and September, becoming the sixth player to win the award 3 or more times. He finished second in NL Rookie of the Year voting to Ronald Acuña Jr. |
| 2018 | Soto was selected to the MLB All-Star Team for the 2018 MLB Japan All-Star Series. |
| September 16 2018 | Soto became the youngest player to steal 3 bases in a game, breaking Rickey Henderson's previous record at 19 years, 326 days old. |
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