The Mets aren’t the little brother anymore.
At the very least that’s the way in which Mets broadcaster Howie Rose appeared to see it after the membership landed Juan Soto on a historic 15-year, $765 million contract on Sunday evening.
Mets followers have been basking within the glory following the information, and the crew’s long-time radio voice took to social media to discuss the necessary second in context of the franchise’s historical past and standing in New York.
“This is perhaps the most unique moment in the history of the New York Mets,” Rose wrote. “I told you from day one that Steve Cohen was not about to be the little brother in town. He was taking dead aim at the Yankees and everyone else. It’s on.”
Rose wasn’t the one Mets broadcaster who tried to place the second in perspective.
Throughout a success on SNY’s breaking information protection of the Soto signing, Gary Cohen described it as “the biggest and most important transaction the Mets have ever made.”
“The only one that is in the same ballpark was the trade for Mike Piazza in 1998,” Cohen continued. “The Mets have by no means dipped this deeply into the free agent market when it comes to the caliber of participant and youth. The factor that may come closest to that may have been signing Carlos Beltrán, however Beltrán wasn’t 26 years previous when the Mets signed him. Soto simply turned 26.
“He is arguably the best hitter in baseball, if not he’s in the top three, and did I mention he’s just turning 26? He’s got seven years under his belt. He is a marvelous, marvelous offensive player and completely changes the conversation around the Mets.”
Soto’s determination was an enormous second for the Mets, because the slugger spurned a suggestion from the Yankees for 16 years and $760 million, in line with The Submit’s Jon Heyman.
Soto is coming off a season the place he hit a career-high 41 homers and helped the Yankees attain the World Sequence for the primary time since 2009.
