Juan Soto to the Mets on a 15-Year, $765 Million Deal -- Emergency Pod!
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR are live in Dallas for an emergency pod as Juan Soto signs a record-shattering $765 million deal to spend the next 15 years with the Mets. Plus, they examine Willy Adames' move to the Giants, Michael Conforto to the Dodgers, Tyler O'Neill to the Orioles, and Luis Severino to the A's.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Sunday, December 8th. What is happening? We're recording on a Sunday. We're at the |
| 0:22.4 | double tree in Dallas near the site of the winter meetings, the Hilton Anatol, and thanks |
| 0:27.2 | to the kind folks at the Terra Nova crafting company, we have a recording space. So we're |
| 0:32.2 | making this happen, you know. Otherwise known as the double tree, bah, blah, blah, |
| 0:35.0 | emergency pod, emergency pod. They gave us us a little space here we're in the corner |
| 0:40.3 | and we're going to be respectful and not as loud as I just was so |
| 0:46.3 | welcome to the emergency pod for Juan Soto to the Mets and of course it'll take us at |
| 0:52.8 | least 45 minutes to dissect this because it has |
| 0:56.3 | such far-reaching implications. |
| 0:58.1 | It's not just Wans Soto the Mets. |
| 1:00.1 | It's Juan Soto opens up the market. |
| 1:02.3 | It's Juan Soto versus his compatriots. |
| 1:04.5 | It's Juan Soto and Willie Damos. |
| 1:06.4 | It's Juan Soto in all the things that have happened on the Sunday before we even really got to get going. |
| 1:13.0 | I mean, we had plans, we have plans. |
| 1:15.0 | You'll get to see some really interesting guests, I think, over the next few days, but |
| 1:19.1 | we got to get to the news. |
| 1:20.6 | And so Sunday night, here we are. |
| 1:22.3 | We're doing it. |
| 1:23.0 | This is Juan Soto choosing the Mets over the Yankees. |
| 1:25.8 | This is Juan Soto turning down a $440 million extension |
| 1:29.8 | a couple of years ago from the Nationals. This is so much that we can break down here. The deal |
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