It appears like All-Star outfielder Juan Soto will not dedicate his long-term future to the New York Yankees anytime quickly after he joined them from the San Diego Padres through a commerce introduced late Wednesday night time.
“Folks have questioned would he signal an extension with the Yankees someday this winter,” ESPN MLB insider Buster Olney stated about Soto throughout the newest version of the “Baseball Is not Boring” podcast, as shared by Ryan Gilbert of Audacy. “I believe there’s little-to-no probability of that. I believe he’s trying to have a launch 12 months and grow to be subsequent winter’s Shohei Ohtani.”
Whereas SNY’s Andy Martino reported earlier within the week that Yankees proprietor Hal Steinbrenner is keen to boost the membership’s payroll “to greater than $300M for the primary time” to pay the likes of Soto and Japanese ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto when big-money gamers resembling Aaron Choose are already on the books, Yankees senior vice chairman and basic supervisor Brian Cashman revealed on Thursday he hadn’t “had any conversations concerning” an extension with Soto.
Soto is about to grow to be a free agent after the 2024 season and sure will ink a deal bigger than the nine-year, $360M contract Choose signed final December. As for Ohtani, the two-way famous person could be near placing pen to paper on an settlement worth round $600M that may or may not come from the Toronto Blue Jays.
Steinbrenner retained each Cashman and supervisor Aaron Boone after the Yankees missed the playoffs for the primary time since 2016, however Boone solely has a year left on his contract that features a membership possibility for 2025. Olney advised that Boone and/or Cashman presumably being on the new seat is one motive why the Yankees “needed to” commerce for Soto even when the 25-year-old technically is a one-year rental as of the second full weekend of December.
“I believe the Yankees are beneath a whole lot of strain after a disastrous 12 months,” Olney defined. “They’re pushing all of the chips in the course of the desk for 2024 which is Aaron Boone’s final 12 months beneath contract as supervisor of the Yankees.”
