MIAMI — Juan Soto delivered a 30-30 season and nearly a 40-40 season — finishing with 43 home runs, 38 steals and a .921 OPS — in a tour de force first year with the Mets.

And yet the team he picked in free agency did not make the postseason .

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The four also-rans in the Soto sweepstakes — the Yankees, Red Sox, Blue Jays and Dodgers — all will play into October.

But Soto does not yet have public regrets concerning the $765 million deal he signed that brought him to Queens for 15 years.

At his introductory news conference, he cited not the money, rather the Mets’ chances for sustained excellence bei

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