Unbelievable: Juan Soto Reviewed The Truth About Him And The Yankees Coach……

Juan Soto earned a new nickname from Aaron Boone after helping the Yankees earned their third-straight win over the Astros.

While his tenure has only lasted three games, Juan Soto has been everything the New York Yankees were expecting and more. Facing the Houston Astros on Sunday, Soto once again proved to be the difference maker for New York.

The Yankees moved to 3-0 on the season with a 5-3 victory over the Astros. Down 2-0 after the second inning, Soto scored New York’s first run of the game on an error by first baseman Jose Abreu. However, it was his work in the seventh inning that would change the game completely.

Oswaldo Cabrera tied the game up at three early in the frame with a solo home run. Soto would then come into the box and give the Yankees their first lead of the game with a towering shot. It marked his first home run with the team.

Anthony Volpe would get in on the action, as his eighth inning home run was the proverbial nail in the Astros’ coffin.

Juan Soto couldn’t be more impressed with his introduction to the Yankees. With three straight wins, the star outfielder had just one word to describe New York’s play, via Jon Heyman of The New York Post.

“The way we’ve been winning has been incredible,” Soto said.

Manager Aaron Boone kept it shorter and sweeter. Well maybe not too sweet as his one-word nickname for Soto shows exactly how Boone feels about what he brings to the team.

“A killer,” Boone described Soto as.

After missing out on the playoffs in 2023, the Yankees knew major changes needed to happen entering the 2024 season. The crown jewel of the offseason was acquiring Soto in a trade from the Padres. New York finished the 2023 season ranked 25th in runs scored with 673.

Soto is expected to be a direct solution to that problem. Since joining MLB in 2018, Soto has hit .285 with 161 home runs, 486 home runs and 50 stolen bases. He is a four-time Silver Slugger, three-time All-Star and a World Series champion.

Through the first three games of the 2024 campaign, Soto is hitting .500 with a home run and three RBI. He has played a distinct role in all three New York victories thus far.

On Opening Day, he threw out the tying run at the plate in the bottom of the ninth inning, preserving a 5-4 victory. Game 2 saw Soto go 3-4 with an RBI in a 7-1 win. And his third performance against the Astros continued New York’s perfect streak and earned him a new moniker from Boone.

The Yankees are dead set on making a run to the World Series in 2024. Trading for Juan Soto was a dream acquisition in accomplishing that goal. But for New York to be successful, Boone needs Soto to continue being a nightmare for any opposing pitcher who steps onto the mound.

There haven’t been many trades between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees in the teams’ history.

Recent trades between them, though, could be punctuated by the addition or subtraction of a beard.

This winter, Alex Verdugo traded in his red shirt and beard for pinstripes and limitations on the number of chains he can wear. Greg Weissert, one of the pitchers Boston received in the deal, is already sporting a full beard. He looks right at home in a Red Sox uniform.

Weissert had one of the better mustaches in the Yankees organization — he was even giving Nestor Cortes a run for his money. His beard is also up near the top of the facial hair pyramid in Boston. Weissert, Connor Wong and Kenley Jansen are rocking the Sox’s fullest beards so far this year.

Greg Weissert’s beard has earned him comparisons to former Red Sox John Schreiber

The Red Sox broadcast during Weissert’s March 26 appearance compared him and his new look to recently traded relief pitcher John Schreiber. The resemblance is there in more ways than one.

The two pitchers are both 6-foot-2 and they look strikingly similar thanks to Weissert’s addition of a beard. The two have had ups and downs in their major-league tenures, but Schreiber’s sample size of games is far larger than Weissert’s. His arsenal also comes stacked with all the same pitches Schreiber uses — both pitchers throw a sweeper, four-seamer, sinker and changeup and Weissert also has a cutter.

Weissert has pitched to a 0.96 ERA over 9.1 innings in the Grapefruit League. The right-hander posted 12 strikeouts to just three walks and he’s only allowed six hits. He made his season debut on Saturday and tossed a clean frame with two strikeouts to help keep the Sox in the game before Julio Rodriguez walked them off in extras.

Weissert and Campbell will both nicely fill in Schreiber’s vacancy in the ‘pen, but the former could make it look like Schreiber never left now that he has the freedom to grow a beard. That was something the Yankees couldn’t offer.