{"id":6009,"date":"2024-11-08T14:51:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T14:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=6009"},"modified":"2024-11-08T14:51:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T14:51:11","slug":"yankees-backup-soto-replacement-lands-130-million-in-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=6009","title":{"rendered":"Yankees &#8216;Backup&#8217; Soto Replacement Lands $130 Million in Prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GettyImages-2181078646-e1731076041130.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GettyImages-2181078646-e1731076041130.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GettyImages-2181078646-e1731076041130.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GettyImages-2181078646-e1731076041130.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Yankees 'Backup' Soto Replacement Lands $130 Million in Prediction\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Getty Juan Soto fired up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The New York Yankees would have an impossible time finding a replacement for Juan Soto this winter. In terms of a pure hitter, there isn\u2019t a better one in Major League Baseball. Factor in that Soto is only 26 years old, and the plan for the Yankees has to be to keep him around.<\/p>\n<p>However, if the Yankees lose him, which seems to be a possibility, even if they\u2019re the favorites to re-sign him, they\u2019d have to do something to replace him. Jon Heyman of the New York Post reported that they view Pete Alonso as a \u201cbackup plan,\u201d but Soto remains the main target.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Yankees, meantime, checked in on Mets star free agent Pete Alonso, and while they have legitimate interest in Alonso, that\u2019s a backup plan to Soto, both teams\u2019 Plan A. Alonso is a big star, but in this case, he\u2019s only a very intriguing secondary story,\u201d Heyman wrote on November 5. \u201cThe New York-New York competition for Soto looks like it may become the battle royal of the winter. And while the Yankees have some obvious advantages, the Mets do, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Alonso Will Also Be Expensive<\/h2>\n<p>Soto could be looking at a $600-plus million deal, as Tim Britton of The Athletic had him coming in at $611 million over 13 years. While that\u2019s a fair price to pay for the slugger, it\u2019s, nonetheless, a lot of money.<\/p>\n<p>Alonso would be much cheaper in comparison, but he\u2019s still looking at a hefty contract for the New York Yankees to pay. Britton predicted his deal would come in at five-years, $130 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA free agent is judged by a years-long track record and thousands of plate appearances \u2014 in Alonso\u2019s case, more than 3,600 of them. And yet, a single one of them can be the most defining,\u201d Britton wrote on November 7. \u201cWhen Alonso stepped to the plate in the ninth inning of Game 3 of the Wild Card Series, he hadn\u2019t delivered an extra-base hit in two weeks. He had just five hits in his previous 40 at-bats. He looked like a chief culprit in a first-round postseason exit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then he smashed one of the best pitches in baseball for a go-ahead three-run homer, reminding the league what his power can do and propelling the Mets on a ride all the way to the NLCS. Alonso finished the postseason with close to a 1.000 OPS, a big course correction from a pedestrian regular season. He\u2019s a right-right first baseman on the wrong side of 30 who doesn\u2019t do a whole lot beyond hit home runs \u2014 and even that he did less of in 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Given the Yankees would be looking at $26 million AAV, the better plan would be to sign Soto, as Britton highlighted the lack of Alonso\u2019s game outside of hitting home runs.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Could the Yankees Sign Soto and Alonso?<\/h2>\n<p>Nearly every report suggests that the New York Yankees will do whatever it takes to re-sign Soto this winter. That\u2019s their plan, and until it doesn\u2019t happen, it\u2019d be surprising to see them make many moves.<\/p>\n<p>They need as much money for the young star as possible, which could impact Alonso\u2019s and others\u2019 free agency.<\/p>\n<p>In a perfect world, the Yankees would re-sign Soto and sign Alonso. However, it\u2019s uncertain how realistic that is. They have money, but they might look for a cheaper option and only view Alonso as a replacement for Soto offensively if they lose him.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Conahan covers the NBA and NFL for Heavy.com. Since 2019, his sports coverage has appeared at Sports Illustrated, oddschecker, ClutchPoints and Sportskeeda. More about Jon Conahan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Yankees&#8217; &#8220;backup&#8221; plan to Juan Soto Is reportedly Pete Alonso, who landed a $130 million deal in the latest prediction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6009","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 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Yankees &#039;Backup&#039; Soto Replacement Lands $130 Million in Prediction - NEWS USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=6009\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yankees &#039;Backup&#039; 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