{"id":7964,"date":"2024-11-13T22:32:28","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T22:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=7964"},"modified":"2024-11-13T22:32:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T22:32:28","slug":"yankees-juan-soto-predicted-to-sign-702-million-deal-with-al-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=7964","title":{"rendered":"Yankees&#8217; Juan Soto Predicted to Sign $702 Million Deal With AL Team"},"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-2181261503-e1731526284675.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-2181261503-e1731526284675.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GettyImages-2181261503-e1731526284675.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GettyImages-2181261503-e1731526284675.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Yankees' Juan Soto Predicted to Sign $702 Million Deal With AL Team\" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Getty Juan Soto predicted to sign a $702 million deal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>New York Yankees outfielder Juan Soto is the top free agent available and is only 26 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Soto will likely sign a deal around 13 or more years which will lead to a massive deal. His projections have ranged in the 600-700 million range. But, David Brown of Deadspin has Soto signing a 13-year $702 million deal in free agency with the Yankees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSoto set himself up for the biggest payday in MLB history after batting .288 with a .419 on-base percentage and .569 slugging for the Yankees in 2024,\u201d Brown wrote. \u201cNot to mention a career-best 41 home runs, 129 walks, a league-leading 128 runs scored, and 109 RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd Soto didn\u2019t even turn 26 until October when he helped lead the Yankees to their first World Series since 2009. Even if he doesn\u2019t eclipse $700 million, the value of his contract almost certainly will exceed Shohei Ohtani\u2019s heavily deferred deal,\u201d Brown added.<\/p>\n<p>If Soto exceeds $700 million it would be a massive deal, but the star outfielder will likely get teams involved in a bidding war. The New York Mets and Toronto Blue Jays have also shown interest in the star outfielder which should drive up the price.<\/p>\n<p>Soto hit .288 with\u00a041 home runs and 109 RBIs in 157 games with the Yankees in 2024.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Yankees Have Meeting Set With Soto\u2019s Agent<\/h2>\n<p>Soto is the top free agent and his agent Scott Boras has set up meetings with several teams.<\/p>\n<p>Boras is expected to meet with the Blue Jays, Boston Red Sox, Mets, and Yankees in California. The exact dates of the meetings are not certain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJuan knows who the Yankees are, and he\u2019s certainly impressed and pleased,\u201d Boras said. \u201cHe went to the World Series with them, which is a tremendous accomplishment. But to truly understand what ownership thinks and what the Yankees\u2019 future plan is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny player in his situation would want to hear about that. And with the respect he has for the New York Yankees, I know he\u2019s going to want to be very thorough in this process,\u201d Boras added.<\/p>\n<p>Soto has taken a bit of time before he makes his decision. But, after Boars meets with the teams a decision should come soon thereafter.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Yankees Focused on Re-Signing Soto<\/h2>\n<p>New York\u2019s top free goal in free agency is to re-sign Soto.<\/p>\n<p>Soto is one of the best players in baseball and at the GM Meetings, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said his goal was to re-sign Soto. He says New York will put its best foot forward to re-sign the star outfielder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a conversation with (agent) Scott Boras yesterday,\u201d Cashman\u00a0said\u2026 \u201cWe certainly have an interest in retaining him and we\u2019ll put our best foot forward there. But at the same time, that\u2019ll either lead to us retaining him and signing him back. Or we\u2019ll be forced to go in a different direction if we can\u2019t. If we can\u2019t, there\u2019s a lot of different players in this marketplace that can positively impact this roster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Soto\u00a0hit .327 with 4 home runs and 9 RBIs\u00a0in the playoffs with the Yankees.<\/p>\n<p>In his career, Soto is a four-time All-Star and five-time Silver Slugger winner. He also won the World Series with the Washington Nationals in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Cole Shelton Cole Shelton covers the NHL and MLB for Heavy.com. He has covered pro and college sports since 2016, including bylines at BJ Penn, USA Today, SB Nation, Rotowire, Canadian Baseball Network and more. More about Cole Shelton<\/p>\n<h2>More Heavy on Yankees News<\/h2>\n<p>Loading more stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Yankes star outfielder Juan Soto is predicted to sign a $702 million deal in free agency by Deadspin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7964","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; Juan Soto Predicted to Sign $702 Million Deal With AL Team - 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=7964\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yankees&#039; 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