INSTANT REACTION | Juan Soto Signs 15-Year, $765 Million Deal with the New York Mets
The Just Baseball Show
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🗓️ 9 December 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Jack and Peter react to Juan Soto signing the largest contract in the history of professional sports.
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| 0:00.0 | 15 years, $765 million. |
| 0:04.1 | Juan Soto is a New York Met. |
| 0:06.1 | Finally, we can get on with our lives. |
| 0:08.6 | Thank goodness. |
| 0:09.7 | We have an answer in the Wonsotto sweepstakes. |
| 0:12.3 | This is our instant reaction. |
| 0:13.8 | Needed Yankee fan Peter on here. |
| 0:15.8 | I know you're pissed. |
| 0:17.5 | I lay out a lot of my thoughts on Monday's just baseball show. So that's kind of your teaser to go listen to that. It's at the outset. But I'll summarize them real quick. And then I'll just kind of give the floor to you and see what you're thinking. This is objectively the overpay of all overpays. Like, it is an absurd overpay. You're paying |
| 0:39.4 | probably 40 percent, I think, RM throughout 40 percent above market value. Like, it is a ridiculous |
| 0:46.2 | amount of money to give to somebody that isn't Shohei Otani. It was the price for Juan |
| 0:52.1 | Soto services. There were a whole bunch of wrinkles to Juan Soto and him |
| 0:56.3 | hitting free agency when he did and how good he was in his six years of contractual control |
| 1:01.1 | before becoming a free agent that made him worthy, quote unquote, of getting the largest |
| 1:07.9 | deal in the history of professional sports. But this is a league average defender in a corner outfield spot that is tracking to be Ted Williams. |
| 1:15.8 | But is Ted Williams worth $765 million? |
| 1:18.6 | I have no idea. |
| 1:20.0 | Yankees offered 16 for $760. |
| 1:23.5 | And Juan Soto wanted 15 for $7.65. |
| 1:26.8 | That's $51 million a year for the next 15 years. |
| 1:33.0 | Yankee fan Peter Apple, your thoughts. |
| 1:36.0 | Largest contract in sports history. |
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