Padres will confer Soto's camp regarding potential long-term deal while also entertaining trade possibilities
The baseball offseason plays out in shades of truth, and semantics and things that are said that sound like something more than they are. Circumstances change. Everyone has an agenda. It is a slew of simultaneous poker games with gigantic pots at stake. So it was Wednesday that the game’s most powerful agent spoke on the topic of the Padres’ top offensive performer. And it sounded sort of like Scott Boras said the Padres were not going to trade Juan Soto.
One way to fit Soto into this year’s payroll would be to sign him to a long-term deal that features less money up front. This does not line up with what Boras clients generally agree to, though Boras noted he works for his clients and not the other way around. Preller did not explicitly say that keeping the 25-year-old Soto was contingent on the ability to lock up the player who leads the major leagues in on-base percentage and ranks fourth in OPS since he entered the league in 2018.
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