{"id":10357,"date":"2024-11-19T22:05:12","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T22:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=10357"},"modified":"2024-11-19T22:05:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T22:05:12","slug":"other-teams-that-could-meet-with-star-free-agent-outfielder-juan-soto-include-the-phillies-giants-rays-phillies-plan-to-meet-with-juan-soto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=10357","title":{"rendered":"Other teams that could meet with Star Free agent outfielder Juan Soto include the Phillies, Giants &#038; Rays.Phillies Plan To Meet With Juan Soto"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<header>By Mark Polishuk | <time datetime=\"2024-11-19T11:28:36-06:00\">November 19, 2024<\/time> at <time datetime=\"2024-11-19T11:28:36-06:00\">11:28am CDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Juan Soto<\/strong>\u2019s tour through free agency has thus far taken him to meetings with the Yankees, Mets, Red Sox, and Blue Jays, with another meeting set for later today between Soto\u2019s camp and Dodgers brass.\u00a0 Another big-market team can be added to the mix, as the New York Post\u2019s Jon Heyman (via X) writes that the Phillies also intend to sit down with the free agent slugger, though a meeting isn\u2019t yet known to be officially scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>It comes as no shock that the Phils will at least check in on the market for another big name, as ownership and president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski haven\u2019t been shy about courting and signing superstar free agents.\u00a0 <strong>Bryce Harper<\/strong> and <strong>Trea Turner<\/strong> are two of those stars, and it is fair to assume that Harper and Turner have exchanged a few texts and calls with their former Nationals teammate Soto about a reunion in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Phillies chairman John Middleton acknowledged that his team would be involved in the Soto sweepstakes to some degree, though Middleton was rather candid in his evaluation of Soto\u2019s market.\u00a0 Middleton felt \u201c<em>Soto wants to be in New York, and I don\u2019t mind being a stalking horse.\u00a0 At some point, if Dave and I get that feeling, we\u2019ll probably say, \u2019You know what, we\u2019re not going to win this\u2019 because we\u2019ve both been the stalking horse before<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This hints that the Phillies aren\u2019t planning quite as pitched a pursuit as other suitors in the race, though it costs the Phils nothing to meet with Soto and agent Scott Boras to access the situation.\u00a0 Just in case other teams don\u2019t meet Soto\u2019s asking price or some other obstacle arises, Philadelphia could position itself as a fallback option that still checks a lot of boxes on Soto\u2019s presumed wish list, as the Phillies are a consistent contender who should remain in the playoff hunt for some time to come.<\/p>\n<p>Signing Soto to a record contract would further elevate the Phillies\u2019 already-large payroll.\u00a0 As per RosterResource, Philadelphia has an approximate $269MM payroll and a $288MM tax number for 2025 even before any significant offseason moves have been made, so adding Soto would send the Phillies far beyond the highest tax penalty tier of $301MM.\u00a0 Since the Phillies have made luxury-tax payments in each of the last three seasons, they already face an increased price tag for any further overages, so signing Soto would essentially come at twice the cost of his actual salary.<\/p>\n<p>Middleton might not necessarily mind at least a one-year splurge, since <strong>Kyle Schwarber<\/strong> and <strong>J.T. Realmuto<\/strong> are free agents next winter, and thus represent some significant money coming off the Phillies\u2019 books.\u00a0 Ideally, the Phils would probably love to free up money this winter by moving at least one of <strong>Nick Castellanos<\/strong> or <strong>Taijuan Walker<\/strong>, though that is much easier said that done since both players have negligible trade value.<\/p>\n<p>If Soto was signed and Castellanos stayed put, the two would handle the corner outfield positions in some fashion while <strong>Brandon Marsh<\/strong> and <strong>Johan Rojas<\/strong> became a center field platoon.\u00a0 This wouldn\u2019t be an ideal arrangement from a glovework perspective, yet the Phillies probably wouldn\u2019t mind a defensive step backwards if it meant putting Soto\u2019s power bat into the lineup.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p>View Comments (56)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juan Soto&#8217;s tour through free agency has thus far taken him to meetings with the Yankees, Mets, Red Sox, and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-10357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","tag-juan-soto"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Other teams that could meet with Star Free agent outfielder Juan Soto include the Phillies, Giants &amp; 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