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Juan Soto Signs Record $765M Deal with New York Mets
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12/10/2024
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So, Jack, the Soto News was this. Juan Soto signing with the New York Mets for the richest
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and largest contract we have seen in the history of professional sports. Fifteen years, seven
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hundred and sixty-five million dollars with escalators that could make this deal more
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than 800 mil in a player option for Juan Soto after five of those fifteen years. Let me
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ask you the question like this, Jack, to get your initial reaction. Were you more surprised
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by the team, the New York Mets that Juan Soto signed with or the amount of money, seven
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hundred and sixty-five million dollars that Juan Soto signed for?
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Not surprised by the team one bit. I'll be totally honest there, because I think if we
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got into a bidding war, the New York Mets were going to win the bidding war. And I think
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what the reported final figure from the Yankees was was 16 for seven sixty and the Mets were
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15 for seven sixty five. It's five more million dollars in total value. It's also, you know,
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one less year. So a higher average annual value on the contract. The Mets won the bidding
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war clearly. Soto wanted to be in New York. I think anybody could understand that from
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the outset of this season, to be totally honest. I mean, he seemed to love New York.
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The question was, which borough does he want to be in? And I think the answer might have
01:28
been total money and might have been average annual value. So we got that answer. It was
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the Mets. I was not surprised by the team. I was surprised by the money. And I'll tell
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you why. This is an asinine amount of money to give to somebody that isn't Shohei Ohtani.
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And the reason I say that and I've sounded like a hater on a lot of outlets over the
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last couple of days, but the reason I say that is Shohei Ohtani transcends baseball
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with what he does. He is a top three hitter on the planet and he can throw one hundred
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and seventy five innings at a Cy Young caliber level. And he grabs an entire continent's
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marketing strategy and he throws it at the L.A. Dodgers. There's so much more about the
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global phenomenon than just a really good hitter and a league average defender. And
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Juan Soto, Mookie Betts, made three hundred and sixty five million dollars for 12 years.
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Aside from Mike Trout, that was the largest contract ever given to a position player.
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Juan Soto made four hundred million dollars more. It's more than double Mookie Betts'
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contract. But Jack, inflation. It was like five years ago that this happened. This is
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an insane amount of money. And I don't think any non Ohtani player is worth even close
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to seven hundred million dollars.
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