{"id":44165,"date":"2025-03-26T07:08:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T07:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=44165"},"modified":"2025-03-26T07:08:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T07:08:41","slug":"steve-cohen-thought-juan-soto-was-returning-to-yankees-after-brutal-mets-meeting-one-of-the-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=44165","title":{"rendered":"Steve Cohen thought Juan Soto was returning to Yankees after brutal Mets meeting: \u2018One of the worst\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Cohen believed Juan Soto was headed back to the Yankees after a second in-person meeting that took place in December amid talks to bring the slugger to Queens.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to a lengthy feature published by Sports Illustrated on the Mets\u2019 hunt to bring one of the biggest names in baseball into the fold this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Soto, of course, signed with the Mets in the end on a recording-setting 15-year, $765 million contract on Dec. 11, but a mere five days earlier, the Mets owner left a meeting with Soto and his camp in Florida, thinking any hope was all but dead.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/20250222_MetsHoustonST_CS021.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"New York Mets' Juan Soto (22) hits a solo home run in the first inning against the Houston Astros during Spring Training game at Clover Field, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, in Port St. Lucie, FL.\" \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cohen convened a meeting with Soto and his representatives on\u00a0Dec. 6 at Cohen\u2019s Boca Raton home, where Soto told the Mets that one of his biggest priorities for where he was signing was making sure he had protection in the lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Soto had Manny Machado behind him in San Diego and Aaron Judge during his lone season in The Bronx but didn\u2019t feel the Mets had enough protection for his liking.<\/p>\n<p>The conversation did not get much better from there \u2014 in Cohen\u2019s eyes, at least \u2014 and at one point, his frustration seemed to boil over.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/20250217_MetsST_CS087.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Steve Cohen looks on at Spring Training\" \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhy are we even having this meeting? It sounds like you\u2019re coming up with a lot of reasons why you don\u2019t want to come to our team!\u201d Cohen reportedly said during the sit-down.<\/p>\n<p>After the meeting ended and Soto departed, Cohen told Mets President of Baseball Operations David Stearns that Soto was \u201cgoing back to the Yankees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But to his surprise, Cohen got a call from Soto\u2019s agent Scott Boras the next morning that stunned the Mets owner.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/121224Mets38CW.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Met Juan Soto next to his agent Scott Boras, during a press conference where Soto was introduced as the newest Met at Citi Field.\" \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Boras told Cohen that the meeting was \u201creally, really great\u201d even though Cohen had felt as if that was \u201cone of the worst meetings\u201d he\u2019d ever been in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJuan liked you. You definitely checked the ownership box,\u201d Boras told Cohen in the phone call.<\/p>\n<p>The following Sunday, Soto gave Boras the go-ahead to try and work out the deal with the Mets, and later that night, it had been finished, making the slugger a member of the Amazin\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Soto will make his official Mets debut when they open their regular season on Thursday in Houston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Cohen believed that Juan Soto was headed back to the Yankees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":44166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[65,44,17,40,1318,50,45],"class_list":["post-44165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","tag-juan-soto","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-ny-sports-minute","tag-sports","tag-steve-cohen"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - 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