Jones & Keefe: Making sense of the Juan Soto/Red Sox rumors

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00:00Would I be willing to go 15 years for Soto?

00:02Yeah.

00:03Is it smarter to go 15 years and 700 million for Juan Soto, Keith, or is it smarter to

00:11do the Bob Nightingale plan that came out the other day, that the Red Sox want not one

00:15but two of Corbin Burns, Max Fried, Blake Snow?

00:19So is it smarter to sign two starting pitchers than Juan Soto for 15 years, 700 million?

00:26I still want Soto.

00:27I think so.

00:28I love Burns.

00:29I paused because of Burns, but I don't know that it's smarter, but the Red Sox, they need

00:38a household name and a superstar.

00:40That's what they need.

00:41And I think it just adds so much more.

00:44Not that Soto is a polarizing figure, but getting him from the Yankees and then having

00:49him go up against the Yankees now adds so much more juice to that rivalry, which needs

00:56a little kick in the shorts.

00:58I would still lead that, just because I like Max Fried, but he's no guaranteed stud-signing

01:04guy.

01:05Burns is closer to that.

01:06None of this whole show likes Blake Snow.

01:07None of us.

01:08Nobody does.

01:09Yeah.

01:10So yeah, I think those pitchers...

01:11So Max Fried and Blake Snow or Juan Soto?

01:12Juan Soto.

01:13I don't care if it's 700 million.

01:14Juan Soto plays every day.

01:15Yeah.

01:16And I know any player can get hurt all the time.

01:17It just feels like baseball players get hurt, or pitchers get hurt all the time.

01:20I think you're right.

01:22They'd also get the...

01:23I think there's a benefit to stealing a player away from the Yankees.

01:26I'm not even talking head-to-head in the standings.

01:28Oh, we made them weaker and we got better.

01:30There's that benefit.

01:31Yeah, yeah.

01:32But there's also Red Sox fans going, oh, we outspent New York.

01:34They want him.

01:35We outspent the Yankees.

01:36We outspent Steve Cohen and the Mets.

01:39The Dodgers aren't even in.

01:41We outspent those teams.

01:42There would be a real benefit to fans reinvesting and recommitting to the team because you did

01:48that.

01:49One thing, and I know it's the cost of doing business, but if you have your biggest free

01:52agent signing in, I don't know, seven years, and it'd be way bigger than what you had before.

01:57I mean, David Price was a huge contract, but this is another whole stratosphere of contracts.

02:04The cost of doing business often is giving these players these opt-outs, but that to

02:09me is a little deflating.

02:10If you finally come together and you give a 15-year deal and $700 million, you're like,

02:17here we go.

02:18And then he has three really good years and he opts out.

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