The Mets’ Juan Soto era is underway.
Soto arrived at the team’s facilities in Port St. Lucie and joined his teammates on Sunday.
He was not required to report until Monday.
He was seen chatting with manager Carlos Mendoza before getting set to take batting practice.
The Mets inked Soto to a 15-year, $765 million contract to win one of the most competitive sweepstakes in MLB history, beating out the Yankees, Blue Jays and a number of other teams.
“It’ll be electric,” Mendoza told The Post’s Steve Serby in an exclusive Q&A. “Looking back how Citi Field was in September, and definitely in October, that’s an unbelievable feeling. We feed off that, and that’s what we’re expecting, and we want to see a packed house every day. It’ll be electric [not] only because of Soto but because of the really good players that we got in here, whether it’s [Francisco] Lindor, whether it’s Francisco Alvarez, [Brandon] Nimmo, [Jeff] McNeil, you name it, so it’ll be exciting.”
Soto spent last year with the Yankees and was pivotal to their World Series appearance, hitting .288/.419/.569 with a .989 OPS, 41 home runs and 109 RBIs in the regular season before hitting .327/.469/.633 with a 1.101 OPS, four homers and nine RBIs in the postseason.
He will be part of a menacing Mets lineup that will also include Lindor, Pete Alonso, Nimmo, Mark Vientos and Alvarez.
“I had some conversations with him, but I’m looking forward to those everyday interactions in just kind of what makes him tick,” Mendoza told Serby. “It’s going to take some time here to get to know Soto, that’s what spring training’s all about, so I got seven weeks before we get to Opening Day, and I’ll have a better idea by the time we get [to] Houston.”
Those seven weeks have officially started.
