{"id":17517,"date":"2024-12-13T23:37:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T23:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=17517"},"modified":"2024-12-13T23:37:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T23:37:42","slug":"breaking-juan-soto-said-that-he-hasnt-spoken-to-any-of-his-former-yankees-teammates-since-the-season-ended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=17517","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Juan Soto said that he hasn\u2019t spoken to any of his former Yankees teammates since the season ended"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images2.minutemediacdn.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,w_3027,h_1702,x_0,y_309\/c_fill,w_720,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto\/images\/ImagnImages\/mmsport\/inside_the_pinstripes\/01jey9wj7hf74vqkn4pd.jpg\" alt=\"Dec 12, 2024; Flushing, NY, USA; New York Mets right fielder Juan Soto meets the media during a press conference at Citi Field. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-Imagn Images\" \/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"tagStyle_1bmarg5-o_O-style_gt0nzj-o_O-sidesPadding_1kaga1a\">\n<div>Former New York Yankees player Juan Soto confirmed silence between him and all former Yankees teammates since signing with the Mets.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_g15bch3d6\">A November 22 X post from SNY showed that New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge not only hadn&#8217;t spoken to former Yankee Juan Soto about his free agency since New York lost the World Series, but the two hadn&#8217;t communicated during the entire offseason.<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_i08w9f03i\">&#8220;Yeah, I haven&#8217;t talked to him at all,&#8221; Judge said in a phone interview with SNY when asked about deciding how much to speak to Soto about free agency this offseason.<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_9w7etezjl\">&#8220;I think the best thing is to really give those guys space,&#8221; Judge added. &#8220;You know, I talked to him all season and he knows how we feel about him. And I think the most important thing is [to] now let him do his thing with his family, pray about it, talk with people, and come to the right decision for him and his family.<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_xnkx18npf\">&#8220;So yeah, I haven&#8217;t talked to him at all. I thought I&#8217;d talk to him maybe yesterday on the [MVP announcement] call&#8230; but he wasn&#8217;t there,&#8221; the 2024 AL MVP concluded.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Aaron Judge says he has not spoken with Juan Soto at all since the end of the World Series:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I think the best thing is to really give those guys space. I talked to him all season and he knows how we feel about him.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KAEPWjoCwY\">pic.twitter.com\/KAEPWjoCwY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yankees Videos (@snyyankees) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/snyyankees\/status\/1860048869851091350?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 22, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_g6aj0s64g\">Soto ended up rejecting the Yankees&#8217; final free agency offer of $760 million for 16 years and elected to sign a 15-year, $765 million contract to join the New York Mets instead.<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_2bjb8m6n8\">Soto&#8217;s inaugural press conference with the Mets took place on December 12. At one point, he was asked if he had spoken to any of his now-former Yankees teammates since signing with the Mets.<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_wxqnxs8ax\">\u201cI haven\u2019t talked to any of those guys,&#8221; Soto responded, per an X post from SNY. &#8220;We talked to them through the playoffs, at the end of the playoffs. But after I [had] this process, I haven\u2019t talked to anyone [on the Yankees].\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Juan Soto has not spoken with any of his Yankees teammates since the end of the World Series <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5OoikmrAbi\">pic.twitter.com\/5OoikmrAbi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yankees Videos (@snyyankees) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/snyyankees\/status\/1867305148369817812?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_qjqjucih2\">When Soto was asked about whether he had spoken to Judge specifically, he said, &#8220;I haven&#8217;t,&#8221; per SNY.<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_4gka2x1a6\">The reporter then asked Soto if he expected to, and he said, &#8220;Yeah. Why not? Yeah. Definitely, at the end of the day, we&#8217;re still friends, we&#8217;re still cool. Everything that happens, it&#8217;s just business-wise. But the relationship that we created last year I think is gonna stay there forever. And I&#8217;m looking forward to [that].&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;We&#39;re still friends, we&#39;re still cool. It&#39;s just business. The relationship that we created last year will stay forever.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Juan Soto says he has not spoken with Aaron Judge since his free agency decision, but he plans on doing so: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lvN1XdO0ta\">pic.twitter.com\/lvN1XdO0ta<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yankees Videos (@snyyankees) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/snyyankees\/status\/1867311388407799916?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_2jjvr1qr1\">It will be interesting to see whether Soto and Judge return to speaking terms in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A November 22 X post from SNY showed that New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge not only hadn&#8217;t spoken to former Yankee Juan Soto about his free agency since New<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - 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