Follow our live updates from the Houston Astros' 2025 Opening Day game against the New York Mets at Daikin Park in Houston.

Soto, 26, who signed a record-breaking 15-year, $756 million contract in December, and Holmes, 32, played for the New York Yankees in 2024. The Mets signed them in an attempt to bolster their roster after falling to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League Championship Series last year.

Juan Soto’s debut with the New York Mets has seemingly the entire baseball world excited. “Yeah, put me in that category too,” manager Carlos Mendoza said Thursday.

The Kranepool family will be honored before Mets home opener on April 4, accompanied by former teammate, Art Shamsky, who has a home in South Florida.

Expectations were always going to be elevated for the 2025 New York Mets. Their midseason about-face last summer, from 11 games under .500 to within two games of the National League pennant, did something rare in these parts: It captured the hearts of an often jaded fan base.

The New York Mets came so close to being the team to stop the Los Angeles Dodgers in their tracks during the 2024 MLB playoffs, but in the end, they fell short in the NLCS in six games. But the Mets organization was only encouraged by this level of play from their team,