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MLB Rumors: Juan Soto Bidding Has Surpassed $600M amid Dodgers, Crimson Sox Contract Buzz

Scott Polacek @@ScottPolacek Featured Columnist IV December 4, 2024 Set Number: X164636 TK1 It’s going to cost quite the contract to land Juan Soto this offseason. Ken Rosenthal and Evan Drellich of The Athletic reported Tuesday that bidding has already surpassed the $600 million mark. That isn’t particularly surprising as some of the league’s most

Scott Polacek @@ScottPolacek Featured Columnist IV December 4, 2024 Set Number: X164636 TK1 It's going to cost quite the contract to land Juan Soto this offseason. Ken Rosenthal and Evan Drellich of The Athletic reported Tuesday that bidding has already surpassed the $600 million mark. That isn't particularly surprising as some of the league's most

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Baseball: World Series: New York Yankees Juan Soto (22) in action, at bat vs Los Angeles Dodgers at Yankee Stadium. Game 5. 
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It may price fairly the contract to land Juan Soto this offseason.

Ken Rosenthal and Evan Drellich of The Athletic reported Tuesday that bidding has already surpassed the $600 million mark. That is not notably shocking as a few of the league’s most notable groups are concerned in his free company pursuit.

The report listed the New York Mets, New York Yankees, Boston Crimson Sox, Toronto Blue Jays and Los Angeles Dodgers because the “publicly recognized” groups. It additionally mentioned “all remaining contenders have made affords above $600 million.”

Whereas Rosenthal and Drellich reported there may be an “expectation inside the trade” that this offseason’s greatest prize will resolve by the tip of the Winter Conferences, agent Scott Boras did not sound like somebody in a major hurry.

“While you’re going via this stuff, he is simply obtained a number of info to meld via,” Boras mentioned Tuesday. “We have had conferences with quite a lot of franchises. He is begun the method of eliminating groups and doing issues. Juan is a really methodical thinker, so we’ll see, however I do not suppose something is imminent within the close to future.”

Nonetheless, ESPN’s Alden Gonzalez reported Tuesday that Soto’s free company “is nearing its remaining phases, with a supply aware of the method opening the chance that the star outfielder may choose his vacation spot by the tip of this week — earlier than the beginning of the annual winter conferences.”

Rosenthal and Drellich listed the Mets because the “favourite” and the Blue Jays and Dodgers as “longer photographs.”

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Additionally they referred to as the Crimson Sox “a shocking drive within the negotiations” and highlighted how “desperately” the Yankees wish to maintain him of their lineup alongside Aaron Choose.

All New York did final season with that tandem main the best way was attain the World Sequence for the primary time because the 2009 marketing campaign. Whereas there may be nonetheless loads of expertise on the Bronx Bombers, shedding Soto could be fairly the blow for his or her possibilities at reaching the Fall Traditional for a second straight yr.

A contract of greater than $600 million could be astronomical, however it was simply final offseason that Shohei Ohtani signed a closely deferred $700 million take care of the Dodgers.

And Soto is simply 26 years outdated with quite a lot of seasons of peak manufacturing seemingly remaining. He already has a resume with a World Sequence championship, batting title, 5 Silver Sluggers and 4 All-Star Video games and can certainly proceed including to it at his subsequent cease.

He slashed .288/.419/.569 with 41 dwelling runs and 109 RBI final season and can look to place up related numbers at his subsequent cease.

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