[Bill Madden] Yankees deserve credit for apparently going well beyond their comfort zone at $750-760M for Soto but word now is Cohen [and Mets] is going to $800M. If so he’ll be alone.

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  1. I’m sorry but 800m for Soto is diabolical. Great player, I wouldn’t want that contract if I were a serious baseball team (not mine)

  2. That’s an extra $3.4m a year. I don’t care about the ramifications, hit them with that auto +$50m, Ross

  3. Where the hell has Bill Madden been? Out of nowhere he drops this tweet? That’s so weird. He’s not a guy who would make this up.

  4. I swear they’re all sitting together at the winter meetings challenging each other to come up with biggest pile of bullshit.

  5. I simply don’t believe any owner will give out a $800 million contract to anyone. I’ll believe it when I see it.

  6. Hold on, I’m hearing the Mets were just beat. Soto is going to the Kansas City Chiefs, $850 million

  7. Honestly, at what point are salaries just ridiculous? I know most people on this sub just say “owners need to spent more” – and after suffering through John Angelos’ regime I agree – but this is ridiculous.

  8. I’ve prepared myself for the Yankees being outbid by the Mets for months, but if these are the kind of numbers the Yanks balk at, then I’m okay with Plan B.

  9. The real offer is going to basically be 3 years/$150m. Because it’s going to be chalk full of opt outs.

    Then it comes down to how much do you pay to guarantee the next 12 years.

  10. They just keep saying “what’s a few million more” and the next thing we know Soto gets 10 billion.

  11. 800 is wild. Even 700 for Shoei is insane even as a two way player. These contracts in the next 3 to 5 years will rival small nation’s GDPs.

  12. Soto about to take a 1 year prove it deal until teams get serious about their offers and get to $1B.

  13. One of my favorite quotes, paraphrased, is from the one and only Arnold Schwarzenegger—“it’s true that money can’t buy happiness. Right now I am worth $500MM, but I was just as happy as when I was only worth $495MM”

  14. I still remember the day the Nats surprised a lot of people and called up Soto. He was a relatively unknown and unheralded player, not even the top prospect in our organization. But he was raking in the minors, and the Nats needed a spark, so they gave him a chance. Fast forward just a few years, and we’re talking about giving him the biggest contract in the history of sports. Life is crazy.

  15. If Soto chose Mets over Yankees for $5 million, one might think he didn’t really enjoy playing with Judge all that much.

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