Nationals open up trade offers on Soto
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Nationals open up trade offers on Soto
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Re: Nationals open up trade offers on Soto
Good idea to start a separate thread. From the muddlefest thread:
Trading for Soto would take a lot; and then keeping him would take more. But he's probably as worth it as most any other player you could think of out there insofar as game changer.
The All-Star outfielder recently turned down an offer from the Washington Nationals that would have made him the highest-paid player in baseball history, and the team now plans to entertain trade offers for him, a seismic development leading to the Aug. 2 deadline.
Soto, 23, rejected a 15-year, $440 million offer, sources said. The proposal, the Nationals’ third in recent months, did not include any deferred money, a departure from the team’s usual practice. The two biggest guarantees in club history, $245 million for right-hander Stephen Strasburg and $210 million for righty Max Scherzer, included significant deferrals, lowering the present-day values of the deals.
The Nationals’ offer exceeded in total dollars the 12-year, $426.5 million contract Mike Trout signed with the Angels in March 2019. Soto would have received an average salary of $29.33 million, the 20th-highest in baseball history, with the deal extending from his Ages 24 to 38 seasons, effectively making him a National for the rest of his career.
Soto’s agent, Scott Boras, however, generally prefers his clients to establish their values on the market. Soto is on track to become a free agent entering his Age 26 season, and possibly could seek a deal of more than $500 million. Boras was not immediately available for comment.
Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo on June 1 told 106.7 the Fan, a Washington D.C. radio station, that the team would not trade Soto before the deadline. Instead, Rizzo said, the team wanted to make Soto the centerpiece of its rebuilding plan.
“We are not trading Juan Soto,” Rizzo said. “We made it clear to his agent (Boras) and to the player. … We have every intention of building this team around Juan Soto.”
Soto’s rejection of $440 million, however, altered the equation, sources said, leaving club officials believing that if they cannot sign him for that money, they never will.
Trading for Soto would take a lot; and then keeping him would take more. But he's probably as worth it as most any other player you could think of out there insofar as game changer.
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If Cardinals wanted to trade for him, they have to make sure they know they can sign him. It will take 500m and not a decade or two long deferred type of deal Nationals probably were doing.
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According to The Athletic article the latest Nationals offer had no deferred money.Big Amoco Sign wrote: ↑July 16 22, 10:44 amIf Cardinals wanted to trade for him, they have to make sure they know they can sign him. It will take 500m and not a decade or two long deferred type of deal Nationals probably were doing.
But yeah he wants 500 million to keep from gonig to free agency.
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This should be one of those polls where both answers are yes.
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Thanks, that’s surprising.CardsofSTL wrote: ↑July 16 22, 10:47 amAccording to The Athletic article the latest Nationals offer had no deferred money.Big Amoco Sign wrote: ↑July 16 22, 10:44 amIf Cardinals wanted to trade for him, they have to make sure they know they can sign him. It will take 500m and not a decade or two long deferred type of deal Nationals probably were doing.
But yeah he wants 500 million to keep from gonig to free agency.
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Walker, Gorman, Liberatore probably isn’t even enough. But that would be what you’re looking at. Maybe someone on the big league roster too.
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It’s not too surprising that he turned down 14/440, it’s not even 30 AAV, and 19 guys have reached that number.