O/T - Juan Soto - 15 years/$765M with the Mets

[jingram058]

Originally Posted by doug.goodman

So your pitch to Soto would have been "sign with us because before you were born we won 24 championships"?

Or, if the press reports are correct, "Don't sign with the Mets for 15 years, sign with us for 16, because 16 years ago we won a title."

My pitch would be/is nobody anywhere is worth that ridiculous amount of money. So if you sign with the Mets, who have been desperately trying to equal the Yankees in New York throughout their entire existence, great. They won't be able to put a team around you, because sooner or later, they can't afford to. Just one indication of that is corporate sponsorship for the name of the ballpark. I don't see the Yankees perspiring over him walking. I believe the Yankees are better off without yet another albatross (Stanton's insane contract). They claim they have a backup plan. We'll see.