Juan Soto’s Mets contract perks revealed: Clothing allowance for his mom?
December 19, 2024
Juan Soto’s Mets contract perks revealed: Clothing allowance for his mom?
28 comments
If he doesn’t have some kind of addition where his dog gets something, this contract was a waste.
Those Dodger deferrals don’t seem so bad for baseball all of a sudden
Stevie would’ve sucked his dick in the 7th inning stretch every game if Juan asked.
Hal: Thats what the money is for!!
I don’t get the point of such perks when you are signing for $805 M. Like at that point you can afford all the perks anyways.
I know people are going to call me salty because I’m a Yankee fan, but this is some of the most diva shit I’ve seen in a contract.
I’m assuming this is satire?
That is by far the most Dominican contract addendum I’ve ever heard 😂😂😂
This can’t be true can it? Is this satire? Holy cow
These ‘perks’ being reported here are not confirmed by anyone, and the ones that have been confirmed are grossly exaggerated. He does not get 22 tickets per game, he gets 4 according to the AP, which are not comped. The story about the supposed ‘clothes allowance’ is not corroborated anywhere, neither are the chartered flights corroborated. You’re taking the word of a tabloid journalist from the New York Daily News as absolute word of god here, not anybody credible.
feels a bit misleading to headline your article with “contract perks revealed” and then include no actual new information in your article but say you heard an unconfirmed rumor that there is a “family perks” addendum to the contract that you speculate could potentially include things like chartered flights for his family or clothing for his mom lol
This contract is absolutely ridiculous. Allowance for his mom???? These types of contracts are ruining baseball and all other sports. I mean good for him, and not taking anything away But this is getting a little out of hand.
>Clothing allowance for his mom?
First time I heard of this perk. Soto got paid and made sure his mom will have a closet full of clothes and shoes.
I trust nj.com reporters as much as the guy saying he was going to the red Sox.
“Clothing allowance” probably means a certain amount of Mets gear that she’s allowed to pick out each season, not a charge account at Prada. Most teams allow for some amount of free gear for families so this is probably just an enhanced version of that.
Eireann Dolan told a funny story a while back that when Sean Doolittle was playing for the A’s, the team told her she could get a free A’s jersey. She asked for a Bartolo Colon jersey and the team told her they meant one of Sean’s.
These are just things I would never think to put in a contract. I’m like, I’m getting paid to to do the job so everything would be related to that. Stuff like personal suite and perks for family members when already making $700 million just seems so redundant. It’s like the point isn’t even the money. I’ve got enough money, I want you to debase yourself for me now. Just strange.
So do all those perks count towards the salary cap?
Aroldis Chapman in shambles!
Met fan, probably a hot take, but like if everyone sees this as such a silly thing why not ask for it? I feel like to some degree this is a gift card vs cash present debate. It’s all the same money.
Salty Yankee fans are never getting over this no matter how much table scraps they pick up this winter
As a neutral observer to this whole thing, it seems pretty apparent that the Yankees are trying to trash Soto with lies and innuendo on his way out to make him leaving more palatable to fans. This leak about the “clothing allowance” is probably the same Yankees front office source that said Juan bailed on the ALCS celebration early (which was later refuted on the record by a reporter who was there).
It just reeks of sour grapes.
The only outlet I’m seeing that says this is NJ.com and they just seem to be referencing themselves. The NY Daily News might have something but it’s behind a paywall and written by Bill Madden so that’s not worthwhile. Bob Klapisch had an article yesterday about the same thing with no source attached to such a claim. He may as well just write “many people are saying this.”
And the hand wringing is just ridiculous. It’s such a long contact! Well the Yankees offered a longer one. You’re going to be paying $50m for a DH soon! A DH just unanimously won NL MVP. It’s so much money! Sorry they didn’t want to pay it off as a 30 year mortgage like LA.
It’s done. It’s over. For better or worse, Juan Soto is a Met for the next 15 years. If it’s such a bad contract, then the lolmets are back and everyone wins. But your team, dear reader, doesn’t have to worry about this “albatross” of a deal.
But let’s stop this jilted ex-girlfriend routine before someone says Soto’s loud snoring on team flights is what really killed the Yankees interest. They only offered a 16 year deal to be polite.
> Commissioner “Rob Manfred’s salary police are all over this contract.” (Whatever that means.)
That means all of these perks are going to be assigned a value, and it will be added to the Mets luxury tax figure. Not hard to figure out. Author is being disingenuous pretending he doesn’t know this.
Mets front office right now:
I wouldn’t mind the security things. Idk if you can be too safe anymore.
But Mets fans are really gonna enjoy that contract in the later years. They could win 3 WS in the next 5 years and that contract will still be an albatross later long after he is a full time DH. He is probably closer to 30 than 26 right now. He runs and moves like someone older than that. $51 million a year for a DH is a lot. You have to keep the rest of the team stocked also for that duration.
This is bullshit, the mets are fucking idiots for accommodating shit like this cause it could lead to become the norm in the league and these fuckers should be athletes not divas
Is there any way for the Mets to recoup any of this contract extravagance if Soto is injured and cannot play for extended duration? Or are they on the hook for all of it regardless?
28 comments
If he doesn’t have some kind of addition where his dog gets something, this contract was a waste.
Those Dodger deferrals don’t seem so bad for baseball all of a sudden
Stevie would’ve sucked his dick in the 7th inning stretch every game if Juan asked.
Hal: Thats what the money is for!!
I don’t get the point of such perks when you are signing for $805 M. Like at that point you can afford all the perks anyways.
I know people are going to call me salty because I’m a Yankee fan, but this is some of the most diva shit I’ve seen in a contract.
I’m assuming this is satire?
That is by far the most Dominican contract addendum I’ve ever heard 😂😂😂
This can’t be true can it? Is this satire? Holy cow
These ‘perks’ being reported here are not confirmed by anyone, and the ones that have been confirmed are grossly exaggerated. He does not get 22 tickets per game, he gets 4 according to the AP, which are not comped. The story about the supposed ‘clothes allowance’ is not corroborated anywhere, neither are the chartered flights corroborated. You’re taking the word of a tabloid journalist from the New York Daily News as absolute word of god here, not anybody credible.
feels a bit misleading to headline your article with “contract perks revealed” and then include no actual new information in your article but say you heard an unconfirmed rumor that there is a “family perks” addendum to the contract that you speculate could potentially include things like chartered flights for his family or clothing for his mom lol
This contract is absolutely ridiculous. Allowance for his mom???? These types of contracts are ruining baseball and all other sports. I mean good for him, and not taking anything away But this is getting a little out of hand.
>Clothing allowance for his mom?
First time I heard of this perk. Soto got paid and made sure his mom will have a closet full of clothes and shoes.
I trust nj.com reporters as much as the guy saying he was going to the red Sox.
“Clothing allowance” probably means a certain amount of Mets gear that she’s allowed to pick out each season, not a charge account at Prada. Most teams allow for some amount of free gear for families so this is probably just an enhanced version of that.
Eireann Dolan told a funny story a while back that when Sean Doolittle was playing for the A’s, the team told her she could get a free A’s jersey. She asked for a Bartolo Colon jersey and the team told her they meant one of Sean’s.
These are just things I would never think to put in a contract. I’m like, I’m getting paid to to do the job so everything would be related to that. Stuff like personal suite and perks for family members when already making $700 million just seems so redundant. It’s like the point isn’t even the money. I’ve got enough money, I want you to debase yourself for me now. Just strange.
So do all those perks count towards the salary cap?
Aroldis Chapman in shambles!
Met fan, probably a hot take, but like if everyone sees this as such a silly thing why not ask for it? I feel like to some degree this is a gift card vs cash present debate. It’s all the same money.
Salty Yankee fans are never getting over this no matter how much table scraps they pick up this winter
As a neutral observer to this whole thing, it seems pretty apparent that the Yankees are trying to trash Soto with lies and innuendo on his way out to make him leaving more palatable to fans. This leak about the “clothing allowance” is probably the same Yankees front office source that said Juan bailed on the ALCS celebration early (which was later refuted on the record by a reporter who was there).
It just reeks of sour grapes.
The only outlet I’m seeing that says this is NJ.com and they just seem to be referencing themselves. The NY Daily News might have something but it’s behind a paywall and written by Bill Madden so that’s not worthwhile. Bob Klapisch had an article yesterday about the same thing with no source attached to such a claim. He may as well just write “many people are saying this.”
And the hand wringing is just ridiculous. It’s such a long contact! Well the Yankees offered a longer one. You’re going to be paying $50m for a DH soon! A DH just unanimously won NL MVP. It’s so much money! Sorry they didn’t want to pay it off as a 30 year mortgage like LA.
It’s done. It’s over. For better or worse, Juan Soto is a Met for the next 15 years. If it’s such a bad contract, then the lolmets are back and everyone wins. But your team, dear reader, doesn’t have to worry about this “albatross” of a deal.
But let’s stop this jilted ex-girlfriend routine before someone says Soto’s loud snoring on team flights is what really killed the Yankees interest. They only offered a 16 year deal to be polite.
> Commissioner “Rob Manfred’s salary police are all over this contract.” (Whatever that means.)
That means all of these perks are going to be assigned a value, and it will be added to the Mets luxury tax figure. Not hard to figure out. Author is being disingenuous pretending he doesn’t know this.
Mets front office right now:
I wouldn’t mind the security things. Idk if you can be too safe anymore.
But Mets fans are really gonna enjoy that contract in the later years. They could win 3 WS in the next 5 years and that contract will still be an albatross later long after he is a full time DH. He is probably closer to 30 than 26 right now. He runs and moves like someone older than that. $51 million a year for a DH is a lot. You have to keep the rest of the team stocked also for that duration.
This is bullshit, the mets are fucking idiots for accommodating shit like this cause it could lead to become the norm in the league and these fuckers should be athletes not divas
Is there any way for the Mets to recoup any of this contract extravagance if Soto is injured and cannot play for extended duration? Or are they on the hook for all of it regardless?