Report: 4 Teams Plan To Meet With Juan Soto This Week

Report: 4 Teams Plan To Meet With Juan Soto This Week

The Juan Soto sweepstakes are heating up! Soto will be the most attractive player on the free agent market this offseason, and according to ESPN’s Jeff Passan, he will be meeting with four teams this week: The Toronto Blue Jays, Boston Red Sox, New York Mets and, his former team, the New York Yankees.

The Toronto Blue Jays have the first meeting this week. The Boston Red Sox are next. Then the New York Mets. And the New York Yankees. The Juan Soto sweepstakes is heating up.

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— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) November 12, 2024

The Blue Jays and the Red Sox were the two additions to the Mets and Yankees, the two presumptive favorites in the Soto sweepstakes. MLB insider Jon Heyman has previously stated that he thinks the reigning World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers–who are seemingly interested in every big-name free agent, akin to the Yankees–and the San Francisco Giants could be involved in the bidding too, though no formal meetings have been reported for those two teams.

None of this means that Soto, 26, will make his decision within the next week, but Passan notes that there’s a chance he does sign before the winter meetings begin on Dec. 9.

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Passan also highlights that, because of his age, “Soto is going to warrant perhaps the longest contract in baseball history,” which Fernando Tatis Jr. owns; Tatis signed a 14-year, $340 million deal when he was 22-years-old in Feb. of 2021.

Soto is the big fish’s big fish. The AL MVP finalist had one of the best seasons of his career in New York, slashing .288/.419/.569 ahead of likely AL MVP Aaron Judge, crushing 41 homers with 109 RBIs and 31 doubles. He and Giancarlo Stanton were the two biggest reasons why the Yankees made their first World Series in 15 years, and it appears he’s well on his way to a record-setting, earth-shattering deal (that’s well deserved).

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