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Originally Posted by BBases31
His power has declined every season for the last 4. His strikeout rate is currently sky high. There are no shortage of players who had some scorching seasons before 25 and then completely lost it(hello Hanley Ramirez, Kris Bryant). His card prices were still super high even after last year. The risk that he may have already peaked is there and it's real and it's significantly higher than it was after 2021, where that risk appeared to be low single digit percent.
If you want to value him like 2023 hasn't happened, go right ahead, there are tons of deals to be had.
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Talk about overreaction.
He's still getting solid contact, still walking at a high rate, and his strikeout rate is not "sky high" in today's game. Heck if Soto is striking out a high rate, so must Yordan Alvarez, Mike Trout, Trea Turner, Rafael Devers, etc.
If he wasn't walking still, and wasn't getting solid contact constantly, it would be something else. I still have faith in him bouncing back to his runner up MVP type seasons.