Will Juan Soto be Baseball’s Biggest Trade Ever?

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🗓️ 26 July 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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At 23 years old, Juan Soto is the type of generational talent that hasn’t been available this early in his career since maybe Babe Ruth. But the Washington Nationals are seeking to do just that after Soto turned down a 15-year, $440 million contract extension a few weeks ago. Several teams are interested, but only a few can even afford to give up players and prospects necessary to make it all work, let alone give him the contract he wants. So with a week to go until the MLB’s trade deadline, Jeff Passan tells us which teams are all-in on the Soto sweepstakes…and how his contract negotiations even got to this point. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So Jeff, I've summoned you here because there is a trade that is being talked about across all of baseball
0:07.1	That is unprecedented that nobody has ever seen in a sport that has existed for over a century
0:13.3	And the guy at the center of it is Wonsoto a guy that you know well
0:17.7	I got you profiled on the show before and I just need you to explain for people who don't know him as well
0:23.8	How good is he exactly?
0:25.8	Wonsoto Pablo is Kevin Durant
0:43.8	Wonsoto is Patrick Malone
0:46.8	This ball is crushed, bang! Wonsoto!
0:52.8	He is young, he is so preternaturally talented, so incredible at all facets of the game
1:00.4	But especially at the most important for an offensive player
1:05.0	Which is hitting the baseball, hitting it really hard
1:08.8	Having an incredible eye at the plate. He is everything you want in a young hitter
1:14.6	And he is only 23 years old
1:18.6	I'm going to throw a comparison out please
1:22.6	For Wonsoto and call me a blasphemer, call me whatever you want
1:29.6	Wonsoto is Ted Williams, damn
1:36.6	And so the price Jeff, the price for a 23 year old Ted Williams
1:41.6	How would you describe what the cost might be here?
1:45.6	I'm going to use the words of a general manager with whom I spoke
1:51.6	Minutes after Wonsoto turned down a not just record contract for Major League Baseball
2:00.6	But a contract extension offer from the Washington Nationals Pablo
2:04.6	That would have made him the highest guaranteed money paid player in North American professional sports history
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