BREAKING: Superstar outfielder Juan Soto and the New York Mets are in agreement on a 15-year, $765 million contract, sources tell ESPN. It is the largest deal in professional sports history.
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Nah. Him and Ohtani are outliers. They are truly special, if Ohtani stopped pitching a couple of years ago he wouldn’t have gotten more than $350m. Most elite young players get deals like Machado and Harper got. And even those were rare. Players rarely if ever make it to free agency before say 28.
Juan Soto's 15-year, $765 million deal with the New York Mets includes no deferred money, according to sources, and has escalators that can reach above $800 million.
Not a Mets fan here. But their bad history of contracts was before cohen. You could say the Scherzer and verlander deals were bad but they got decent prospects back. And either way. Cohen will make the entire contract back, without taking a dime from the Mets by this time next year
The Ohtani contact seems like a steal now, lower AAV for a player who will probably be ~2 WAR more for each of the next 5-ish seasons, not to mention the merch sales
Good for Soto, but I don't think this will be good for the fans or baseball. It'll cost $400 to get into Citi Field and the advertising for TV games will be unbearable.
Reason # 3829483.4 as to why I can't stand professional sports.
If there is one thing I've love to see Zoomers kill, that would be professional sports. At least in its current form where a disgusting amount of money gets thrown around.
Ah, I guess I did but it’s still not the same. Wilpon deferred Bonilla’s post-release salary at 8% compound interest believing he’d make more than that investing the money with Madoff. The Dodgers made a baseball move with both eyes open to spend money later instead of now.
Ronaldo’s pay from the team for play is $75m/year. He gets the rest of his yearly salary, a remaining $125m/year, from commercial agreements with the team. So technically Sotos is the largest player contact yes
Murica. Here’s a room full of kids. Our future. Make sure they don’t get shot. Teach them something but not what you think they need to know. Here’s 50k. Oh. You play a kids game and you’re good at it. And if you stink we will still pay you. Here’s 765 mil…
Look, I am happy for Soto. I really am. But any society that pays that amount of money to a single athlete (or where the highest-paid "state employees" invariably are college sports coaches) is beyond decadent - it's totally FUBAR!
when you realize how much these teams accumulate in revenue and views you’ll realize that the players and coaches DESERVE the money esp putting their entire lives on the line for YOU to watch EVERYDAY…
I certainly don't fault the athletes (the coaches are... a more complicated issue). I fault US, as a society, for believing this state of affairs is acceptable.
I'm not arguing that the athletes don't deserve compensation for the risks they take for our entertainment. It's just sad that our society's priorities make it easy to massively reward athletes and coaches, while teachers, health workers, and others WE DEPEND ON to live have to fight to get scraps.
Wouldn’t it be great if we were talking about the highest paid… teacher “teaching the masses” or a doctor “who cured cancer” or…
I love sports but when any one individual makes so much money while it’s challenging for many Americans just to afford tickets to attend let alone buy food and drink…
That’s just the thing, he is. Mainly because that what he is getting paid. But also because he is already one of the best all around hitters in the history of baseball. He just didn’t get a ton of attention because he played most of his career for the nationals and padres.
Baseball is truly horrible at promoting its stars. Which is why most casual fans wouldn’t be able to pick Mike Trout out of a lineup. But by the numbers Soto is already one of the very best to pick up a bat and will likely finish his career, assuming health, as a top 10 player all time
Potentially yes. He also isn't good at defense or baserunning compared to some of the other great players in the league. If his hitting drops to simply an all star level he will be vastly overpaid. I think the contract will be good for 5 to 8 years. Then terrible.
For sure his hitting is excellent, no question, but you’re also right that he isn’t as strong in defense as other players currently in the league. 5-8 years with this contract feels realistic.
Dude. I just got this app and was thinking “I better follow Passan in case anything happens.” I search your profile and see this 50 second old tweet. Woah.
That kind of money is just stupid. You could house thousands of homeless...and yet they spend it on baseball. People need to get their priorities straight
This is the modern equivalent of the Bonilla deal. The Yankees and Phillies are laughing. Can Soto start on the mound every 5 days and fill in as a reliever? Just saying.
It’s great for baseball to only have 6 or so teams spend like this. It spreads the popularity of the sport everywhere. They will pass football next year easily. Dodgers will get Skenes 5 Billion.
But the economy, the inflation is so high so they want to give this guy this money so they can raise their ticket prices in the economy we have Make it make sense in the good ole USA
I get your point but Pujols was 32 during the first year of his 10-year deal with the Angels. Soto just turned 26. The only reason it's a 15-year deal is so that the money is spread out to give the Mets greater financial flexibility with the luxury tax.
It would be funny as hell if he got seriously injured during warmups on opening day and it turned out to be the end of his career. Would they still have to pay him all that?
I don't care the term. This is the boost Mets needed, especially after an unexpected deep run in the playoffs. The big piece is in, now it's time to plug the holes.
Quite a bit of holes to fill still. Multiple starting pitchers, bullpen, 1st, 2nd, OF…Soto is amazing and will boost the Mets. But they can’t fuck the rest of it up.
The New York Yankees, where Soto played last season, were in the running right up until the end, according to a report from Jon Heyman. The NY Post's MLB insider reports that the Yankees submitted an offer to Soto worth $760 million over 16 seasons.
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LFGM.
No one person deserves so much money, not even people changing the world or saving people’s lives.
Can’t we ALL just get what we NEED to live a low stress and fulfilled happy life? #PayEquality #EatTheRich
Hal go sign them all now. All of them Burns, Fried, Walker, Teoscar and have some money left over.
I just don’t see giving Soto that much money, and of course because it was Boras, there’s no money deferred.
I hope 41yo Soto is still worth $50 million a year.
We’ve gotta keep adding to our Upromise account to save for Mullins (the cheapest of the bunch) Rutsch, Gunnar, Cowser and the list goes on…
Plus a SP1 and CL.
We’ve got plenty of problems in our future.
If there is one thing I've love to see Zoomers kill, that would be professional sports. At least in its current form where a disgusting amount of money gets thrown around.
And then I realized I was on BlueSky and remembered this world is insane.
Baseball losing grip on reality.
I love sports but when any one individual makes so much money while it’s challenging for many Americans just to afford tickets to attend let alone buy food and drink…
How much money does any one person need to live comfortably? There should be other “rewards” beyond $$ like stats, etc…
Nothing wrong on this planet. Everything is just "peachy".
ahem
Just SMH.
Granted he’ll need to invest his money for that to be true, so here’s hoping he blows it on cocaine and prostitutes for the good of the nation.
https://www.si.com/mlb/yankees-made-760-million-offer-juan-soto-before-signed-with-mets