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MLB.com is retaining monitor of all the newest information and rumors surrounding Padres outfielder Juan Soto.
Nov. 27: If Soto’s traded, ‘Yankees have an excellent probability of getting him’ (report)
Héctor Gómez of the Dominican Republic’s Z101 Digital posted on social media early Monday morning that “an individual very near Juan Soto” advised him that the Yankees “have an excellent probability” of touchdown the famous person outfielder. Nonetheless, Gómez continued, that supply additionally thinks there is a higher probability that Soto will stay in San Diego than be dealt in any respect. Gómez additionally named the Mets and Giants as groups “concerned in talks” concerning Soto.
Nov. 22: Soto commerce potential earlier than finish of Winter Conferences?
The indicators are pointing towards Soto doubtlessly being accessible on the commerce market this offseason. MLB Community insider Jon Paul Morosi believes there’s sufficient curiosity in Soto that we might see a deal go down within the coming weeks.
“I do imagine the marketplace for Soto is powerful, and there are sufficient groups on the market that I believe a commerce just isn’t solely potential, it’s potential earlier than the Winter Conferences are over,” Morosi mentioned Wednesday on MLB Community. “Now, it is just a one-year situation, and that may have a method of tempering the worth within the market, however we’re nonetheless speaking about probably the greatest offensive gamers within the sport.”
In Morosi’s view, the Yankees are the principle staff to observe within the Soto sweepstakes, with the Giants a chance as effectively. Each golf equipment have additionally been linked to a different left-handed-hitting outfielder, free agent Cody Bellinger.
“I’ve to imagine, with the stunning dearth of left-handed energy that they’d this yr, the Yankees are going to be throughout Soto in the identical method that they’re throughout Cody Bellinger,” Morosi mentioned.
Nov. 17: Passan expects Soto to be traded, thinks Yanks have ‘actually good probability’ to land him
Soto’s potential availability on the commerce market is likely one of the most intriguing threads of the offseason. We are able to rely ESPN’s Jeff Passan amongst those that anticipate the 25-year-old outfielder to be dealt, pointing to the Padres’ myriad roster wants and lack of payroll area because the driving components. Not solely that, however Passan additionally thinks the Yankees are amongst his more than likely touchdown spots.
“The attention-grabbing a part of that is after we have a look at their payroll,” Passan mentioned Thursday in an look on The Michael Kay Present. “They’re $191 million estimated proper now with arbitration salaries they usually’ve misplaced virtually 700 innings of pitching in free company. Filling 700 innings goes to take a big chunk of change. And with Manny Machado, Xander Bogaerts, Fernando Tatis Jr., Joe Musgrove and Yu Darvish all with full no-trade clauses, with Jake Cronenworth’s contract comparatively un-movable and and not using a entire lot on the books in any other case that they will eliminate, logically what it says to you is that Juan Soto has to go.
“If you need a payroll at $200 million, because the Padres want to do for subsequent season, Juan Soto merely can’t be part of it. And that’s the reason Yankees followers must be excited, as a result of I believe they’ve acquired a extremely good probability of going out and getting him.”
This isn’t the primary time the Yankees have been linked to Soto this offseason. Passan wrote concerning the Soto state of affairs on Tuesday (subscription required) and talked about the Yankees, Cubs and Mariners as potential matches for a Soto commerce as a result of they will supply San Diego younger, MLB-ready beginning pitching, one thing that will be the membership’s “apparent focus” in a Soto deal. MLB Community insider Jon Paul Morosi additionally named these three groups because the possible frontrunners for Soto if the Padres make him accessible.
The Yanks want to enhance an offense that ranked twenty fifth within the Majors in runs scored final season and is thought to be available in the market for one if not two left-handed-hitting outfielders. Soto would match the invoice. Nonetheless, Morosi famous Monday that free-agent middle fielder Cody Bellinger is extra of a precedence as a result of Soto can grow to be a free agent after 2024.
Soto may be a backup plan for the Cubs in case they lose Bellinger. Soto doesn’t play middle, however he’d change Bellinger’s left-handed bat in Chicago’s lineup. In the meantime, the Mariners even have to consider discovering a alternative for a free-agent outfielder. In Seattle’s case, it’s proper fielder Teoscar Hernández.
Transferring on from Soto can be robust after the substantial package deal the Padres gave as much as purchase him in 2022, however a commerce does a minimum of seem like a chance. Per Passan’s report, the Padres “have internally mentioned their choices in the event that they do transfer Soto.”
Nov. 10: ‘Perception all through trade’ is that Soto will likely be traded (report)
Though agent Scott Boras advised reporters on Wednesday that he was given the impression that the Padres’ 2024 plans “positively” embody Soto after a gathering with staff brass on Tuesday, the “perception all through the trade” is that Soto will likely be traded, ESPN’s Alden Gonzalez stories (subscription required).
“I do not assume they’ve a lot of a alternative, actually,” one rival common supervisor advised Gonzalez.
A number of different executives and brokers who spoke to ESPN are additionally underneath the impression that Padres common supervisor A.J. Preller is open to commerce discussions involving Soto. ESPN’s Buster Olney mentioned Friday on The Michael Kay Present that “completely 100% [Soto is] going to be traded earlier than the [2024] season.”
Why is that the notion? Per Gonzalez, it is as a result of the staff has a myriad of holes to fill to area a championship-level roster however valuable little payroll area with which to function. San Diego is reportedly planning to go into 2024 with a payroll within the neighborhood of $200 million. Together with projected salaries for arbitration-eligible gamers, Cot’s Contracts places the Padres’ present payroll at roughly $191 million. Buying and selling Soto would liberate greater than $30 million along with bringing again younger, controllable expertise.
The Padres will proceed to interact with Boras on a contract extension for Soto, however Preller hasn’t explicitly dominated out buying and selling Soto if the 2 sides are unable to return to an settlement.
“Juan long-term [versus] Juan on a one-year deal, that brings totally different dynamics,” Preller mentioned. “We perceive what which means for our roster each short-term and long-term.”
After all, simply because the Padres are prepared to take heed to commerce presents for Soto doesn’t imply he’ll be dealt. The membership nonetheless plans to contend in 2024, and having Soto on the roster offers San Diego one of the best probability to take action. There’s additionally a chance no staff will come to the desk with a commerce supply that’s ok, realizing he’s set to grow to be a free agent in a yr.
Nov. 8: Boras: Soto is ‘positively’ part of the Padres’ plans in ‘24
The Padres’ plans for 2024 “positively” embody star outfielder Juan Soto, in keeping with his agent Scott Boras. Soto, 25, is getting into the ultimate yr of his contract with San Diego, and he’s in line for one of many largest paydays within the historical past of the game in free company subsequent offseason.
Soto’s title has been introduced up in commerce rumors for a greater a part of the previous yr, the place he’s been linked to the Cubs, Yankees and Mets, amongst others. His title has come up extra currently amidst rumors that the Padres want to cut back payroll and add to their farm system.