Juan Soto -- looking like a bust for the Mets

[D. Bergin]

Wish the Yankees could have kept him, but Cohen appealed to Soto's ego better then Hal did...who didn't seem to want to be bothered beyond throwing out the contract at Soto part.

I don't begrudge Soto for leaving. He spent 1 year with the Yankees, and had been used as essentially a bargaining chip multiple times in his young career already.

Not sure why he owed them any loyalty. He was a rental from the get go, and he got them to the World Series, just like they were hoping.

....and then it was the rest of the team who bungled it from there. Soto carried them as far as he could in the Playoffs to.

Wish we had Michael King back, but another upside of that trade is that throw in, Trent Grisham, is now having a bit of a breakout season. Don't know how long it will last (again, it's only May), but if we also get a couple serviceable years out of him, it will make the pitching prospects we gave up for Soto, hurt a lot less.