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Well, what would the J.B. without a Juan Soto update? What would it be?

I don't know. What would it be? It would be sodalists, and we can't have that.

So there's five teams that have made an initial offer.

There are the Yankees, the Mets, the Red Sox, the Blue Jays, and the L.A. Dodgers.

Don't know what the offers are, but obviously I don't know if you put, I'm not sure how you negotiate.

I mean, I have trouble negotiating for myself, so I'm not sure how I would negotiate with somebody else.

I don't know if you put your best foot forward and say this is the best we have or you start low and you risk, you know, ticking off somebody.

Not quite sure.

But I think they all know what part of the pool they're swimming in.

So it's got to be a somewhat decent offer.

I think that what's going to get done is anywhere a yearly average annual salary between 45 and 50.

And if you go below that, I think it's going to be tough to get them.

Now, I also think this, if each team bids what is reasonable and fitting within the revenue created by the organization and what that revenue supports, the Yankees will have the best bid.

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