Go Get Juan Soto

[Cowtipper]

Soto = got.

[Frayed Knot]

So, any new developments overnight?

[Centerfield]

=Gwreck post_id=180528 time=1733714357 user_id=56]
=Centerfield post_id=177127 time=1729481565 user_id=65]Whatever it takes. Make him an offer he can't refuse.

[Edgy MD]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Here's a dumb headline in my Google News feed, from something called Marca.com: Do the Mets give up on Juan Soto after acquiring Jose Siri from the Rays? And no, I'm not going to click on the article to see what the answer is.

So, stunningly, there was room for both!

[metirish]

[Centerfield]

So in the end, all that stuff about the Yankees having an advantage was false. The Yankees just need to get close, blah blah blah.



The Yankees bid far more than I ever thought they would. And if you told me from the beginning that the Yankees would offer $760M, I would have said he's taking it.



I guess in the end he really didn't want to be there.

[Edgy MD]

And if the Yankees did bid $760 million, then the reports of the Mets being committed to go $5 million over the next-highest offer seems to have support.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I think some of the rumors said they'd go $50 million over the best offer.



Among other reasons to be glad about this, I'm happy that my Google news feed will no longer have articles about Juan Soto predictions. But there will still be a lot of other crap.

[Bob Alpacadaca]

How sour are those grapes?

And perhaps there are some within the Yankees organization that feel a weight off their shoulders, knowing they aren't locked into such a massive financial commitment to one player and can now try to spread money around to improve a roster that, including Soto, fell to the Dodgers in the World Series. “I would think there are a lot of people in their room who are like, ‘We dodged a bullet. I'm glad we didn't do this,'” Post baseball columnist Joel Sherman said on the “Pinstripe Post” live show Sunday night after the 26-year-old Soto agreed to the deal with the Mets.

https://nypost.com/2024/12/09/sports/why-yankees-could-be-breathing-sigh-of-relief-after-juan-soto-bolts-for-mets/https://nypost.com/2024/12/09/sports/why-yankees-could-be-breathing-sigh-of-relief-after-juan-soto-bolts-for-mets/

[Centerfield]

"Spread the money around".



If you take the money that the Yanks bid on Soto ($47.5 AAV), you can get like Corbin Burnes and Michael Conforto.