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Evan & Tiki

The Juan Soto Sweepstakes

Evan & Tiki

Audacy

Sports

4.2988 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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E&T Short: Evan and Tiki discuss where Juan Soto will land in free agency.

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0:00.0

The day your baseball season ends and I think this goes with all sports

0:04.0

basketball too football as well it's always an awkward following day because there's a part of

0:09.7

you trying to figure out what went wrong you know know, you're kind of figuring out what

0:13.5

happened in that last game that caused your season to end and then your brain

0:17.9

quickly takes you to the future. And the Yankees have a very questionable future that we've known about for the last seven months because they went out and made an aggressive trade for a great all-time player in Wandsoto.

0:31.0

And we all knew what they got going in they gave up a lot but they got a great

0:35.2

player a player that I admit as an iBO has been a joy to watch and I admit that

0:40.8

selfishly because early in wands career t, he was not a joy to watch.

0:44.7

He was in my division as a Met fan.

0:46.3

And while I always respected him, it was painful, to say the least.

0:52.0

And obviously watching him every day with the New York Yankees

0:54.6

he's everything I thought he was if not more. He is one of the greatest

0:59.3

hitters I've ever laid eyes on. He battles every single at that. I think he's a little

1:04.8

overrated defensively but whatever and now is go time because I have no regrets that

1:10.4

the Yankees made this trade. They did what they had to do. They wanted to try to win a world series and they did the best they could and they got to the fifth game of the world series but now it comes down to are they going to be able to bring them back and the one constant I've had since the beginning was

1:25.3

Juan Soto is not giving anybody a discount. He is not going to just enjoy his

1:31.1

experience here and say I'm staying. It is going to just enjoy his experience here and say I'm staying it is going to be

1:34.4

about the money and the years and I think we all have to respect that that the

1:39.4

player has a right to do that when they get to free agency and I think as we get to the eve of

1:44.1

MLB free agency because it's sort of here but not really players hit free agency

1:49.4

the day after the World Series ends and then there are five days before other teams can

1:54.0

begin negotiating so in five days he'll be open to the world but there is a lot of

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