Mets proprietor Steve Cohen led a contingent of high-ranking Mets officers to fulfill with celebrity free agent hitter Juan Soto Saturday in Orange County, The Put up has realized.
All early indicators counsel the assembly went extraordinarily effectively, and the Mets stay seen as one of many favorites for the providers of Soto, who helped the Yankees attain the World Sequence in his preliminary season in New York and is the highest precedence of each New York groups.
It isn’t identified whether or not official gives are being made at conferences this week, however it’s all however sure the 26-year-old Soto will set a document for precise contract worth and his deal may attain $600 million, or probably even $700 million.
Phrase is, the Mets’ presentation was a “big production” and “very detailed,” in order that they clearly poured plenty of work into the preliminary assembly with their prime goal.
The Yankees, additionally thought-about among the many favorites, are due in Monday to Orange County, Calif., for his or her assembly with Soto, who hit 41 dwelling runs and posted a .989 OPS his season within the Bronx. The Jays and Pink Sox are amongst different groups to fulfill with Soto this week.
Whereas the Yankees are the incumbent, the Mets maintain just a few benefits, beginning with Cohen’s wherewithal and his willpower to deliver a sustainable winner to Queens. The Mets additionally made it to the NLCS this season and look like on the upswing.
The Mets do have a number of free brokers of their very own, together with their home-grown slugger Pete Alonso and three-fifths of their beginning rotation, however there’s little doubt who their precedence is now.
That’s Soto.
