I think the WBC can hurt a pitcher, but I don't see how it could cause a catcher to hit poorly. You dont think sitting on the bench for Puerto Rico and not getting hardly any at bats wouldnt have any correlation to Soto starting out as slow as he did? He had a horrible April, and then put up a much better May, and a fantastic June and had an 842 OPS in July(18 at bats) when he got hurt. Seems pretty obvious to me that April was pretty much Soto's spring training getting 46 at bats, and then he got better each month. He's been as bad in August as he was in April. And he had about the same amount of spring training playing time as he did in 2008. Hes actually 100 points higher in OPS in August than he was in April, and he was coming off an injury that he was out for over a month from. I have a hard time believing he had near the same amount of at bats in spring training 08 that he did in this years spring training/WBC.