Exceptional Overpay: Juan Soto Signs with the Mets for $765M; Jeff Passan & Eduardo Pérez React

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 9 December 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Jeff Passan and Buster react to Juan Soto signing a 15-year, $765 million deal with the New York Mets. The guys discuss the power of Steve Cohen’s bank account, Cohen becoming what the other owners feared, the Yankees missing out on Soto, Shohei Ohtani’s contract looking like a bargain, if Alex Bregman could make it as a Yankee, the litmus test for Boston and feeling bad for Toronto. Then, Eduardo Pérez stops by to talk about Cohen securing his Picasso in right field, how Soto and Lindor will mesh, and how Soto’s departure could impact Aaron Judge in the Yankee lineup. Plus, Eduardo on Dave “The Cobra” Parker and Dick Allen’s selection for the Hall of Fame. Later, Buster rifles through more signings, including additions to the Orioles. CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: [email protected] REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS 2:15 Jeff Passan 26:11 Eduardo Pérez 40:43 Buster on those other signings 43:22 Bleacher Tweets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	way out of here this is baseball tonight the podcast this is the baseball tonight podcast for monday
0:14.8	december 9th 2004 and today will be better than yesterday i'm busteruster Only. I'm working from a hotel room in Dallas.
0:22.6	Taylor Schwink is working from the Schwink studios on this Monday morning, Monday afternoon,
0:27.6	and Taylor, man, to talk of baseball, Juan Soto, signing a 16, excuse me, 15-year, $765 million
0:37.1	deal with the New York Mets.
0:40.1	I must admit, last week when we were talking about it, 700, we put out the terms on the podcast.
0:45.4	15 years, $750 million was our prediction.
0:49.0	It lands at $765.
0:50.2	But Taylor, I thought a lot of that would be deferred.
0:53.7	It wasn't, none of it was deferred.
0:55.1	How about that?
0:56.9	Cohen's pockets are deep, man.
0:58.3	I mean, when you, when you can throw cash on, you know, silly pieces of paper that you put on your wall, like, you know, you could pay Juan Soda right away.
1:05.8	Go for it.
1:06.9	Must be nice.
1:08.2	Dodgers are jealous.
1:09.6	Boy, the idea that, you know, just a year after
1:13.4	Shohei Otani got his contract, 700 million it was announced that. We know it was kind of fake
1:20.4	money. It was 461 million in terms of present-day value. That contract almost looks like laughable now.
1:27.1	Like it's a punchline among
1:28.3	agents today. I mean, that tells you how big this contract was for Juan Soto. And look,
1:35.1	there's a lot of stuff going on at the winter meetings. We got some moves that have happened,
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