Why?
So are the Mets?
It's real $765 million.
Mark DeRosa.
How do you wrap your brain?
He just changed the game for
every player that will come
after him, will to aspire to
beat him last year.
Tom, I thought Shohei Otani was
an outlier because he could do
both.
He just got 65 more million
dollars to hit.
It's amazing.
We were all blown away by the
Otani contract and speaking of
blown away, that's what juan
Soto has just done only a year
later to that staggering number
that Otani put up.
You see that 765 $51 million a
year with no deferrals.
I mean, listen, we said going
into this all along.
We thought that Steve Cohen had
a number that was going to be
beyond anybody else, the owner
of the New York Mets and he
proved that I I truly believe
that he was not going to leave
without getting Juan Soto.
No matter where this went, there
are escalators that could get
this over $800 million.
Reportedly, Tom, how did we get
here?
What were all the factors that
were in play to have this number
get so dramatically higher than
what we originally expected for
juan Soto.
Well, you have to start with his
talent.
This is a generational talent,
the best pure hitter I believe
in this generation right now.
In terms of just getting on base
, working at bats player who's
putting up numbers year after
year after year, age only 26
years old next season, front
offices love the fact that he's
just entering his prime.
So you're paying him not just on
what he's done, which is on the
Hall of Fame Highway, but what
he will do and finally above all
else, it's the bidding war that
happened between the Yankees and
the Mets.
I know there were other teams
involved.
Dodgers Blue Jays, Red Sox, this
came down to Yankees and Mets
like we have never seen before.
Yankees and Mets bidding on a
player who played in the 2024
season in New York with the
Yankees.
And guys think about where the
Mets were in May of 2024 11
games under 500.
I want to get this in real
quick.
Mark Feinstein getting details
on the Yankees final offer.
16 years, 760 million.
Um You see for said 47.5 million
A ad, the Mets offer was $51
million.
A ad the Red Sox, according to
chris Coello bid for SOTO was 15
years, $700 million.
Come on that's not getting it
done.
I'm kidding.
I mean, that's what you're right
though.
I mean, these teams went beyond
their normal comfort zone but
Steve Cohen was not going to
lose this bidding.
I think he proved that.
And those teams have nothing to
be ashamed about.
No, they were just in it against
the guy who's not going to lose.
And I was about to say Greg, you
think about where the Mets were
11 games under Jorge Lopez
throws his glove in the stands.
The Mets season is going down
the drain early.
They not only rescued the season
but they got into the postseason
, made a nice run.
And I think this made the Mets
more attractive to Juan Soto and
it made it easier for Steve
Cohen to start to consolidate
this team with further
investments.
26 years old, top of his game
only getting better.
Anyone who watched on a nightly
basis, watched him out of 600
some odd plate appearances
control 598 of them mind
blowing.
And, and I, and I agree with
you.
It's right man.
Right time.
Bidding war power players in the
game, the Red Sox getting
involved, the Yankees want to
keep him.
But at the end of the day, you
knew Steve Cohen was in a
position with where the Mets
were at and where he is
financially that it would be
foolish.
Scott Morrison, Juan Soto, not
to entertain the fact of going
back to him and seeing where
it's at.
Congratulations to Juan Soto.
Congratulations to every big
leaguer that's gonna sign after
him because the price of poker
just went up once a player,
always a player.
This is landscape changing for
our entire sport and man hats
off to juan Soto.
I'm, I'm buying a plane tonight.
A little island like you could
dream and Drew.
We're going, if I'm a Met fan
right now, this might be the
greatest night ever.
I know we won the World Series.
I totally get that.
But this, you were always the
little brother in New York.
I don't care what anyone says.
It was the Yankees and Then the
Mets.
This is such an emotional night
for Met fans.
I, I didn't grow up a Met fan.
No, so many of them, they took