Juan Soto didn’t play in a Grapefruit League game again after he tweaked his right calf in an eleven-pitch at bat against Miami Marlins’ starter Sixto Sánchez on March 25th which ended with Soto walking in what he said was his best plate appearance of the spring.
Soto didn’t want to leave that game after the head-to-head matchup focused him in, and left him 6 for 33 (.182/.289/.182) with all six hits singles, five walks, and five strikeouts in a total of 13 games.
“I really wanted to stay,” he said the day after his early exit, “because I took a really long at bat, and I think that at bat was something else.