Juan Soto the Mets - 15 years/$765 million

[tehmc]

Soto to the Mets for WTF kind of money

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/12/ ... -soto.html

[Big_Maple]

At least it’s not the dodgers.

Let the dominoes fall.

[tehmc]

As much as I would want Soto on our team there is no chance in hell I would want them to have spent $765 mil to do it

[D-train]

As much as I would want Soto on our team there is no chance in hell I would want them to have spent $765 mil to do it

They could have done that and payroll would still be less than it was in 2018 on an inflation adjusted basis. Does that change your mind? Do you enjoy Stanton and the other owners being wealthy?

[Lamda]

As much as I would want Soto on our team there is no chance in hell I would want them to have spent $765 mil to do it

They could have done that and payroll would still be less than it was in 2018 on an inflation adjusted basis. Does that change your mind? Do you enjoy Stanton and the other owners being wealthy?

Irritates the crap out of me that they are soo cheap - as it does every real fan. They are just like Jerry - buy low on the prospect or in their case the team budget - and then hope the prospect/team does amazingly well so they get a better return each year. Not to mention the fact that the team is worth almost a billion more now then when they bought it - means they can fork out an extra 20-30 mill per year easily and we'd be in the playoffs.

[tehmc]

As much as I would want Soto on our team there is no chance in hell I would want them to have spent $765 mil to do it

They could have done that and payroll would still be less than it was in 2018 on an inflation adjusted basis. Does that change your mind? Do you enjoy Stanton and the other owners being wealthy?

Whoa there chill out a bit, a bad financial decision is still a bad financial decision no matter how wealthy you are. For 51 million a year we could have signed 2/3 really good players on shorter/better contracts.

The contract was for too much and for too long, he's a really good player but I don't think he deserves more than Ohtani did.

[Donn Beach]

He's four years younger than Ohtani. Ohtani is remarkable for his duality, soto is for his age. I don't know if Soto has Ohtani's marketability. There's more to these things than just WAR. Interesting, seems there's no deferred money, quite a bit of Ohtani's is deferred

[D-train]

As much as I would want Soto on our team there is no chance in hell I would want them to have spent $765 mil to do it

They could have done that and payroll would still be less than it was in 2018 on an inflation adjusted basis. Does that change your mind? Do you enjoy Stanton and the other owners being wealthy?

Whoa there chill out a bit, a bad financial decision is still a bad financial decision no matter how wealthy you are. For 51 million a year we could have signed 2/3 really good players on shorter/better contracts.

The contract was for too much and for too long, he's a really good player but I don't think he deserves more than Ohtani did.

Yes we could sign 2-3 good players but we won't so not really a good argument for not signing the best hitter in the world who is 26 yo.

[Mesully11]

There is no excuse for Mariner ownership but baseball now has 4 real financial divisions:

1. Super spenders
2. Big spenders
3. Cheap bastards
4. Really cheap bastards

[Captain 97]

As much as I would want Soto on our team there is no chance in hell I would want them to have spent $765 mil to do it

They could have done that and payroll would still be less than it was in 2018 on an inflation adjusted basis. Does that change your mind? Do you enjoy Stanton and the other owners being wealthy?

Whoa there chill out a bit, a bad financial decision is still a bad financial decision no matter how wealthy you are. For 51 million a year we could have signed 2/3 really good players on shorter/better contracts.

The contract was for too much and for too long, he's a really good player but I don't think he deserves more than Ohtani did.

Ohtani's deal is only 10 years. Soto will be making 19 Million less in AAV.