Dodgers fans can't comprehend what Juan Soto said after loss to Team USA in WBC

Los Angeles Dodgers fans are sick of hearing the narrative that the best team doesn't always win. They heard plenty of that following the epic 2025 World Series, mostly from a certain crowd of delusional Toronto Blue Jays media members and fans.

This is what made Juan Soto's remarks after the World Baseball Classic particularly perplexing (and painful) for Dodgers fans to process. After Soto's beloved Team Dominican Republic got eliminated by Team USA in the WBC semifinals, Soto decided it was a good time to announce that the DR was, in fact, the best team not only in the WBC tournament, but in all of baseball.

Juan Soto's head-scratching WBC comments are all too familiar to Dodgers fans

It wasn't just Dodgers fans who were in prime position to roast Soto for his illogical remarks. Plenty of haters pointed to Soto's 0-for-4 performance in the semifinal while poking fun at this odd "best team in baseball" proclamation from a player whose team had just lost to a team that would lose in the WBC final 48 hours later.

And though it was easy for anyone to cringe at Soto here, the entire ordeal was especially gross for Dodgers fans, mostly because they couldn't believe this was actually happening again, just as it had happened after the World Series. The team that had just lost in the big moment was being defended as the superior squad to its vanquisher.

Fan-favorite Dodger Kiké Hernandez was the knight in shining armor for LA fans back in November, fighting aggressively and unforgivingly against the bitter Toronto media's assertion that the Blue Jays, not the team that defeated them, were clearly the best team in the World Series.

If Toronto was obviously the better team, why weren't the Blue Jays just awarded the title at the outset of the series, or perhaps before the end of Game 7? Similarly, why wasn't Soto's Team DR allowed to advance to the WBC final, even after losing to Team USA?

Pathetically rhetorical questions, of course, but ones that must be raised in the face of this suddenly en vogue narrative that losing the big game doesn't really matter, as long as you're the "better team."

The spirit of competition — the very essence of sports — is under direct attack if fans are going to do anything but blast comments like Soto's. Not only were they pointless remarks, but they also showed a lack of humility.

And Soto doesn't get a free pass here because of his superstardom. If anything, he should be held more accountable. Shohei Ohtani would have no issue admitting that Team Japan was outplayed by a better team in its quarterfinal loss to eventual champion Team Venezuela. In fact, Ohtani will probably use the loss as fuel in 2026.

Soto shouldn't apologize for bursting with national pride, which is probably what caused him to slip up with this statement. But given his enormous platform, he might want to be a little more discerning moving forward.