Juan Soto believes the Mets have a brighter future than the Yankees.
And while Soto did sign with the team offering him the biggest contract, some are saying that wasn't the only factor involved. In fact, ESPN's Jeff Passan told Scott Van Pelt something about Soto's choice that Yankees fans probably don't want to hear.
"I think Juan Soto looked at the New York Mets' future ... and believed that the Mets have a better future than Yankees.""The Mets weren't that much at a different place, Scott, than the New York Yankees were," said Passan. "The Yankees had a $760 million offer, only five million dollars left spread out over 16 years. So it wasn't a huge, demonstrable difference.
"And so to see the transformation that Steve Cohen has helped make with this franchise over the last four years after he bought it," Passan continued. "To turn them from laughingstock into the team that Juan Soto wants to play with because he believes that they are going have the brighter future speaks volumes about what he has been able to do since he has bought the team. And this I think is just the beginning. They are going to spend more money.
Weird how the team with the brightest future just happened to have the biggest pocketbook, but sometimes things just work out like that. The Mets had the biggest payroll in baseball coming into the 2024 season and still had a start so bad that fans had to rally around a fast food mascot and convince themselves that they were plucky underdogs and a feel good story instead of the George Steinbrenner-era Yankees when accounting for inflation.
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