Juan Soto Signs Record $765M Deal with New York Mets

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00:00Juan Soto sweepstakes the biggest acquisition of the winter has made his

00:08new home known Juan Soto signing last night with the New York Mets for a 15

00:14year seven hundred and sixty five million dollar deal that with escalators

00:22in the contract ERS could be north of 800 mil it is by far in a way the

00:29richest and most expensive contract in the history of North American

00:36professional sports it is what Juan Soto has signed it is what Steve Cohen has

00:42offered and has the financial backing to do after a season in the Bronx Soto

00:49stays in New York but heads up to Queens to play for the New York Mets what was

00:54your reaction when you saw this news last night or perhaps this morning when

00:58the early alarm went off this Soto is a absolute mercenary out here on yet a

01:03nother baseball team and is only 26 years old just going to the highest

01:07bidder buying his time and playing it perfectly to get the free agency which

01:11he did never once did he show any love to the New York City fan base for the

01:15Yankees here and now showing the love to the Mets not because he wants to go and

01:19play in Flushing Queens at Citi Field because he wants to play for the biggest

01:22paycheck possible which now he gets and he's gonna land there with a lot of

01:26expectations and rightfully so with how good he's been but if you are a Mets fan

01:31and you are the ownership group you probably hope Ben this isn't actually a

01:3615-year deal it's a five-year deal because you know what that means he's

01:39been absolutely red-hot for five years giving you the best baseball he can give

01:44you then opts out to go free which you can then opt back in it's okay well

01:48we'll get back into the bidding at this point what you can have is injury

01:52riddled low performance at the end of five years he goes I think I'd say for

01:57the extra ten and five hundred plus million dollars that you guys owe me so

02:01it sounds crazy to say you hope it's only a five-year deal but that means

02:04great things for Mets fans and Mets backers which means you got the best of

02:07Soto and he thinks he can get even more money after that which then you can make

02:11the decision you just hope this doesn't turn out to be an albatross which they

02:15always do but you're playing for the performance while he's in his late 20s

02:19and his early 30s not for the back end that's just the tax you pay as a ball

02:23club taxi sign these big name free agents knowing you're gonna probably

02:26give them three hundred million dollars worth of empty seasons just to get those

02:30first five six seven years