{"id":377655,"date":"2025-12-30T17:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T17:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/377655\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T17:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T17:12:08","slug":"why-mets-fans-think-juan-soto-is-leaving-mlb-to-be-a-wide-receivers-coach-at-ecu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/377655\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Mets fans think Juan Soto is leaving MLB to be a wide receivers coach at ECU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Juan Soto signed a mega contract about a year ago that&#8217;ll earn him $750 million.<\/p>\n<p>Why not leave the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/new-york-mets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Mets<\/a> after a year to go be a position coach in college football?<\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s not happening, just to get that out of the way.<\/p>\n<p>But fans are having a good time with a recent hire whose name is also Juan Soto.<\/p>\n<p>East Carolina has hired a guy with that name to be its new wide receivers coach. It&#8217;s not the Mets superstar, but the news announcement by ESPN&#8217;s Pete Thamel has more than one million views on X because of the name overlap.<\/p>\n<p>Fans also had fun with some image generation.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"qme\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MKRwdatnlb\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/MKRwdatnlb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aaron Gershon (@agershon99) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/agershon99\/status\/2005806257689747774?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">December 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/news\/team-usa-projected-wbc-lineup-bryce-harper-news\/8f6511f6d5033b252b594217\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Team USA&#8217;s projected WBC lineup is incredible<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The football Soto is from Miami and attended Saginaw Valley State and then Kent State for college.<\/p>\n<p>He has since been a high school and lower-college position coach before spending time coaching at Kent State, Yale, Wagner and North Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Now, he moves to ECU to join the Pirates.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe he and the slugging Soto need to get together for a picture sometime. Because you know what they say: Two Juan Sotos is better than one.<\/p>\n<p>More MLB news:<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Juan Soto signed a mega contract about a year ago that&#8217;ll earn him $750 million. Why not leave&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-377655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}