Michael Kay is pouring some water on the recent range for Yankees followers.
The Yankees’ tv broadcaster believes proprietor Hal Steinbrenner will not be going to go greenback for greenback with Mets proprietor Steve Cohen within the bidding battle for prized free agent Juan Soto and mentioned he heard from a baseball supply that Cohen intends to outbid any supply by $50 million.
Kay launched his level whereas referencing former MLB participant Carlos Baerga’s unconfirmed report that the Mets have supplied Soto $660 million.
“Here’s the thing that scares me,” Kay mentioned Monday on “The Michael Kay Show” whereas noting that Baerga is “locked in” with Latin gamers.
“I would put it this way and this is not something that Yankees fans are going to want to hear. I don’t think the Yankees are going to go there. I don’t. Then I’ve heard from somebody in baseball today that Cohen’s willing to go $50 million over whatever anybody offers. So it looks like the Mets really want to get this guy. So, every report I’ve seen is that there have been no offers made but Baerga, who is usually locked into this stuff, said it’s $660 (million) for 15 years.”
Kay is clearly plugged into the Yankees group since he works for them and beforehand coated them earlier than transitioning to his tv and radio profession.
Nonetheless, The Submit’s Jon Heyman reported that the latest workforce conferences with Soto didn’t embody gives.
“They were getting acquainted sessions, especially for owners,” Heyman wrote.
There have been questions in regards to the ranges to which Steinbrenner is keen to spend, each total and for Soto.
Heyman reported that the “perception” round baseball is the Yankees maintain “some sort of edge” given Soto loved his time In The Bronx.
The Mets met with Soto final week, whereas the Yankees had their go to Monday.
The Purple Sox, Blue Jays and Dodgers are additionally within the hunt, with Los Angeles coming into the fray because of the financial savings from Shohei Ohtani’s deferred deal.
“This is just my gut feeling, and a couple people I talked to today, I don’t think he’s going to be denied in terms of overbidding for someone,” Kay mentioned of Cohen.
“I might suppose if Juan Soto returns to the Yankees, then their gambit of creating that commerce for him — nicely it paid off in a technique, it bought them to the World Sequence, he actually performed a big function, and that possibly he did fall in love with the expertise and needs to return again.
“But if what I believe, is that it’s going to come down to the most money, and I simply think that’s going to be the Mets, I really do.”
