All the ways Juan Soto is already transforming the Yankees

Is it too soon to call them Juan Soto’s Yankees?

Sure, it was merely four days in March. Soto hasn’t even donned the pinstripes or heard a roll call in The Bronx. Forget October — by this time in June, we could be talking about some untold downturn or, who knows, Giancarlo Stanton’s pursuit of Barry Bonds’ 73 homers. A baseball season is Homeric in scope; Yankees icons, like giant sequoias, are measured in decades and rings.

But check out what Soto did in those four days, comprising an adrenaline-shot road sweep of the hated Astros, the very “dragon” the Yankees have repeatedly failed to slay in recent years:

• On Opening Day on Thursday, he drove in the Yankees’ first run as they rallied from a 4-0 deficit, and threw out the potential game-tying run at the plate in the ninth inning.