Brendan Kutyu/BrendanKutyNJOffers for Juan Soto are expected to go through multiple rounds, a league source tells@TheAthletic. The first round is expected to be "preliminary," meant to gauge genuine interest from all parties. The following offers/rounds, which could start around next week, are (cont …) (Cont.) … expected to become increasingly more serious, weeding out candidates and seemingly point toward a Winter Meetings-ish decision timeframe.
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MLB free agency sucks so much. Nothing happens until like 6 weeks in. Every sport has this awesome free agent frenzy and baseball always finds a way to be boring to casual sport viewers.
I’m really starting to feel like I don’t exactly want a giant Ohtani-level contract and all the snark from other teams that would come with it. Soto is undoubtedly an incredible fit with our lineup, but I really just don’t want to overpay to be the New York Sotos for the next 8 years. But if it gets us a title in the next couple years I suppose I’ll shut up and ultimately learn to love it
Would be funnier if every team walked away 😆
Boras always likes to drag things out as long as possible so this isn’t surprising at all. He’s as responsible as anyone for MLB free agency being slow as shit compared to other sports leagues.
Just like buying a house.
“Okay, offers are due Monday. Ok, best and final offers now. Ok, seriously your best offers now. Ok, this is the best offer, can you beat it”.
I fucking hate it
Soto looking for a strong team that can last for several rounds
Seems pretty reasonable, they’re gonna weed out the teams who really want it versus the ones who are there for optics
Sounds right.
The first round of offers shows how serious each team is and shows what they’re thinking. Any creative offers coming in? Any bonkers offers? etc.
After that they can go back and counteroffer with the teams they’re interested in moving forward with, eventually ending up with two or three teams to pit against each other for the best possible offer.
Every one in this dance knows what’s happening. He’s going to end up with a historic contract, and the winning organization is going to rip open their competition window for him.
Good things come to those who wait patiently. 🙂
sounds like tiktok news
Why is it that when I hear about how the initial “get to know you” round went, no one talks about how the Mets can just show Vientos postseason highlights to illustrate an example of the young kids coming up?
I unironically liked it more when everyone wasn’t has hyperconnected on FA stuff and things just materialized without all the drama, speculation, and build up.
Not that fans didn’t do that, but see more “public” figures doing it is getting old.
I knew it was too early to look into social media likes and posts!!
What’s this the fucking U.N now!?
He’s not signing until February earliest