The Post brings you inside the Juan Soto routine that is giving Mets ‘goosebumps’
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Eric Chavez gushes discussing Juan Soto’s hitting — off of a tee. He described getting “goose bumps” watching Soto’s pre-workout routine. The Mets hitting coach has spent a lifetime trying to bottle what he thinks is ideal in a hitter and now gets to watch it meticulously, relentlessly and religiously, daily.
“If I had to sum up everything I believe in hitting, he does it,” Chavez said. “He values seeing the baseball and swinging at strikes and being short to the baseball, and he creates low line-drive back spin on the balls he hits.”
And Chavez sees the building blocks every day, away from public viewing. Nestled in the Mets indoor hitting cage in a group with other veterans, including Francisco Lindor, Starling Marte and Brandon Nimmo, Soto goes through a 10-15 minute preparatory regimen. It is mostly the same as the one taught to him as a 16-year-old in the Nationals academy in the Dominican Republican by one of their minor league instructors, Troy Gingrich, and he has not stopped using it, even as the $765 million man.
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