Ahead of the game, Aaron Boone was asked if he'd spoken to Soto, and the Yankees manager revealed his message to his former outfielder. "I told him he looked terrible in that uniform," Boone said jokingly.

PORT ST. LUCIE — Aaron Boone had a message for Juan Soto ahead of his first season with the Mets. “I told him, ‘You look terrible in that uniform,'” the Yankees manager said Monday at Clover park ahead of the Subway Series exhibition game at Clover Park.

The New York Mets have historically been in the New York Yankees' shadow since their inception in 1962, but the tide is turning. They signed Juan Soto to a 15-year, $765 million deal in free agency after he spent 2024 with the Yankees,

It’s not quite a Subway Series, but as Spring Training winds down ahead of the 2025 MLB season, the New York Mets and Yankees will meet for the first and only time during the preseason this afternoon.