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What Juan Soto can learn ... from Kurt Suzuki according to Washington Nationals’ manager Davey Martinez...

Juan Soto, at 22, is already an impressive, if not complete, player, with a second-place finish in Rookie of the Year voting, an NL batting title* (which probably deserves an * since it was for 2020’s COVID-affected, 60-game 2020 campaign), and a Silver Slugger award on his resume three years into his big league career. He’s a preternaturally-gifted hitter, with some advanced awareness of the strike zone, who’s put in work to improve defensively as well, (though all the Nationals’ outfielder’s defensive metrics in 2020 were ugly), but there are still areas of his game he could stand to improve as Davey Martinez told reporters over the last week of the regular season this past September.