Would losing Juan Soto to the Mets hurt more than losing other players?

And it's a very fair question.

How's answer?

No.

As I said, we're going to be in the mix for Soto.

If it doesn't work out, it's going to hurt a little bit no matter where he goes.

That's another one, T, T, where I would not not say you leaving me would hurt a little bit.

I would say, I'd be devastated.

Well, of course, have a back-off plan, but no, we would not be happy if we lost Juan Soto.

That sounds like, yeah, you know what, if we lose them, then you convince yourself we'll be all right.

We'll be fine.

Right.

Yeah, we'll be good.

We got a good enough farm system. Everything that we've

always done over the history of our organization, it's panned out. So even if we, for the first time,

don't get a free agent that we want to keep, we'll be okay. Right. You know why? Because we're the

Yankees. And I mean, I'm not saying there's an arrogance there, but it's just, it's also, like, dismissive of the,

one of the great players in the game.

It does, it has a dismissive feel to it.

It has a dismissive and a, I'm trying to lower expectation feel.

Yeah.

Except the next thing he said.

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