{"id":699573,"date":"2026-05-15T12:21:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/699573\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T12:21:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:21:16","slug":"mets-yankees-rivalry-hasnt-been-same-since-juan-soto-changed-sides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/699573\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets-Yankees rivalry hasn’t been same since Juan Soto changed sides"},"content":{"rendered":"

Juan Soto was in the Mets\u2019 lineup<\/a> on Thursday after a brief injury scare, albeit as the designated hitter, so it\u2019s not all bad news in Queens ahead of the season\u2019s first Subway Series, with cross-town hostilities renewing at Citi Field on Friday.<\/p>\n

The Mets even swept a series for the first time this season<\/a>, beating the Tigers 9-4 as call-up A.J. Ewing homered. So there is at least some small degree of positivity on their side of the city going into the measuring-stick series against the Yankees<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A not-so-bad week for the Mets aside, the big-picture story headed into a weekend in which baseball will take center stage in the city<\/a> \u2014 depending on how long the Knicks need to wait to learn their conference finals opponent \u2014 is the total divergence of the two local franchises<\/a> since 2024, when for one glorious week, a Subway Series World Series looked to be in the cards.<\/p>\n

Moreover, that divergence happened after, and in some ways as a product of, the Mets scoring their biggest ever off-field victory over the Yankees, wooing Soto over the metaphorical traffic-jammed bridge of your choosing with a record 15-year, $765 million deal that represented owner Steven Cohen\u2019s coup de grace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Juan Soto was in the Mets\u2019 lineup on Thursday after a brief injury scare, albeit as the designated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,1273,101,4,1690,61,62,2548,4203,1274,185,428,10545],"class_list":{"0":"post-699573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-mets","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-beyond-the-back-page","10":"tag-mets","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-mets","14":"tag-new-york-yankees","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkmets","17":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-sports-plus","20":"tag-subway-series"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116578568387390023","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}