Boston’s taxing pursuit of Juan Soto is over. (Mets)
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If Soto truly goes for $800 million, I can't wait for people to declare how cheap the Red Sox are for not going that high.
Nah, but if players start getting these wild contracts consistently, eventually the Sox (and others) either catch up to the market or get left behind on every free agent. No reason to think Cohen would stop here and the Yankees would still have that money to spend if they miss out on Soto.
Psyched he’s not a Yankee anymore. Would have been very happy to know that outcome six weeks ago.
Maybe, maybe not. Now they turn their attention to the same fall back options that we need to go after. Fried, Teoscar, Burnes etc
Sorry we didn't get him. Glad it wasn't the Yankees.
Nice refreshing this thread with you all
Nice refreshing this thread with you all
Hard to be mad, seems like there is a good chance he was never going to leave NYC. Would have loved to have seen him in Boston, but this isn't a worst-case scenario.
This post made scrolling through this whole begotten thread worthwhile.
I posted in the predictions thread that the Mets made the most sense because Steve Cohen is worth $21B and desperately wants his favorite childhood team to be a top tier MLB franchise. So not surprised to see him win out. Cue the usual suspects calling John Henry a cheapskate for only making a "performative" $700mm+ bid.
edit: Really would have loved having Soto on the Sox (duh!), but this is still a big hit to the MFYs and, therefore, a win.
Akin to the beating of a butterfly’s wing, the motion of Soto’s pen across Cohen’s contract — set in motion a disturbance that, when the gale force winds of karmic change had finally becalmed, the great structures of capitalism itself had been flattened.
Hey, seems like a lot of dough. But, in 5 years, it will be looked at as a bargain.
Ohtani contract looks pretty good.
Mookie contract looks really, really, really good.
Ohtani contract looks pretty good.
Mookie contract looks really, really, really good.
Best case scenario at that price. Yankees lose him. He goes to NL where he can look foolish in that huge OF and lose to the Dodgers in the NLCS every year.
Now pivot and pivot fast before the Yankees steal everyone.
Now pivot and pivot fast before the Yankees steal everyone.
It would have been fun to have that caliber of player and bat in the lineup for the next decade. With that said, he needed to be 5-7 WAR player annually over that timeframe for it to be a good contract. Let’s go get some pitching and let the kids do their thing. I applaud the Red Sox effort at going after an elite talent like this.
so….what the fan account RedSoxStats said?
I think the Sox were genuine in their interest. I also think it was a major long shot the entire time. Yankees were the team he played for, Mets had the largrest check book, Sox had the childhood thing. Being a childhood fan (plus a Celtic fan!) was definitely not as important as the others
100%
And the Yankees need bats more than starting pitching so this should be asymmetric warfare.
These next few days will be fun.
O’Neil signed to the Orioles.
https://x.com/jonheyman/status/1865545472758399125?s=46&t=FPMnX382DP8UpFh1kbfbNw
I cant tell if you are trolling or not but TON is on the Orioles now
There is no gain in being second in this. Until they spend some money, I am going to be annoyed. They have been clowning us since 2019, they gouge the customer and put out a less than mediocre product out.
I dont blame them at that no-deferral number. This is going to be 51+ AAV on the luxury tax until 2040 as it stands, pending opt-outs.
I'll reiterate, I do have a feeling he would have been a Red Sox without Cohen. Tough business.
