The New York Mets entered the season with sky-high expectations after signing Juan Soto to a record deal. By mid-June, they were the best team in baseball. But everything collapsed in the final three and a half months. Injuries piled up, the losses kept creeping up, and a season that once looked like a contender ended with a 4-0 shutout loss to the Miami Marlins on the final day, knocking them out of the playoffs.

For Soto, it was his first taste of failure in New York. Still, he made it clear he isn’t letting one bad stretch define the future, and he has full trust in the organization.

“One hundred percent,” Juan Soto said when asked if he still believes in the future of the Mets. “One season is not going to determine what we have here. We have everything that we need to go all the way

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