The Padres giving $765 million to 1 participant? No method that was going to occur.
Breaking: Juan Soto to the Mets. $765M. 15 years.
— Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) December 9, 2024
Did buying and selling Juan Soto harm? After all it did. However seeing what Michael King has developed into, what Kyle Higashioka did this previous season, what Drew Thorpe helped San Diego get from the White Sox and who Randy Vasquez and Jhony Brito might be and I feel Padres followers should be blissful the workforce in the end determined to make the sensible transfer.
Baseball is the last word workforce sport and the Padres did an excellent job at bettering the workforce after a really disappointing 2023 season.
Yankees followers might say they’ve gained the commerce nonetheless as a result of they made it to the World Sequence with him however you can not persuade me Brian Cashman acquired Soto for one yr (and if he did then they failed too as a result of they didn’t win ring quantity 28).
Particularly with what we all know now, the Padres didn’t have the strain to win just like the Yankees did this previous season and now San Diego nonetheless has King and Dylan Stop on the prime of their rotation whereas the Yankees should go spend a whole lot of tens of millions of {dollars} in the event that they wish to go get Corbin Burnes or Max Fried.
Oh, and that Soto gap is fairly large in the intervening time.
No, I’m not advocating to go cling the “gained the Soto commerce” banner at Petco Park however I’m in a greater temper proper now than I might’ve been if Soto walked for nothing to go signal that very same deal.
Must be an entertaining week within the baseball world!
