Juan Soto traded from Padres to Yankees – MLB.com

Juan Soto was traded from Padres to the Yankees

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According to Padres GM AJ Preller, GM Brian Cashman and the Yankees were aggressive in the pursuit.\n\n “They made it clear that it was a deal and a player.[they wanted\\]said Preller. “Brian is pretty direct and I think they made it pretty clear. Everyone understood that they had a need and Juan is an incredible player who filled that need really well. When you have two teams lined up and one team keeps calling you, you feel like it has a chance.”\n\nDuring his six-year big league career with the Nationals (2018-22) and Padres (2022-23) Soto compiled a .284/.421/.524 slash line and hit 160 home runs with 483 RBIs in 779 games. 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Soto had a salary of $23 million during the 2023 season and is expected to make more than $30 million in arbitration, according to Cot’s Baseball Contracts in 2024.\n\nSoto turned down a 15-year, $440 million proposal from the Nationals in July 2022, and while the Yankees will certainly try to sign Soto to an extension that would give him a spot as one of the Agent Scott Boras is the highest paid player and has a history of taking most of his players to the open market. 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Grisham, a two-time Gold Glover, is expected to serve as the fourth outfielder and defensive backup Trades of all time, “type”: “text”}, {“__typename: “Video”, “contentDate”: “2023-05-27T01:13 :09.285Z”, “preferredPlaybackScenarioURL({\”preferredPlaybacks\” :\”mp4AvcPlayback\”})”:”https://mlb-cuts-diamond.mlb.com/FORGE/2023/2023-05/26/27f4e875 -4286ef3f-95d81bf2-csvm-diamondx64-asset_1280x720_59_4000K.mp4″, “type”: “video”, “description”: “Statcast measures the projected distance and exit velocity of Juan Soto’s 432 foot (114.1 mph) home run”, “displayAsVideoGif”:false, “duration”:00:00:40 “,”slug”:”juan-soto-s-432-foot-home-run”,”tags”:[{“__typename”:”GameTag”},{“__typename”:”TeamTag”,”slug”:”teamid-135″,”title”:”San Diego Padres”,”team”:{“__ref”:”Team:135″},”type”:”team”},{“__typename”:”PersonTag”,”slug”:”playerid-665742″,”title”:”Juan Soto”,”person”:{“__ref”:”Person:665742″},”type”:”player”},{“__typename”:”TaxonomyTag”,”slug”:”player-tracking”,”title”:”Statcast”,”type”:”taxonomy”},{“__typename”:”TaxonomyTag”,”slug”:”alexa”,”title”:”alexa”,”type”:”taxonomy”},{“__typename”:”TaxonomyTag”,”slug”:”game-action-tracking”,”title”:”game action tracking”,”type”:”taxonomy”},{“__typename”:”TaxonomyTag”,”slug”:”yahoo-in-game-national”,”title”:”Yahoo In-Game National”,”type”:”taxonomy”}],”thumbnail”:{“__typename”: “Thumbnail”, “templateUrl”: https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/image/upload/{formatInstructions}/mlb/ajpykr3lscumn29s1eyy”},”title” : “Juan Soto’s 432-foot home run”, “relativeSiteUrl”:/video/juan-soto-s-432-foot-home-run”},{“__typename”: “Markdown”, “content”: “All There are Signs that Soto should be right at home in the Bronx. Soto has only played seven games at Yankee Stadium, although his performance in that small sample has been outstanding. Soto is 6 for 23 (.261) in the Bronx with a double and four home runs, drove in nine runs and posted a 1.219 OPS.\n\n\”I don’t know if it’s his favorite,” Boras said, “but if you’re Juan Soto, you’re nice.” of showing up and every baseball stadium is a favorite. ,”type”: “text”}, {“__typename”: “Markdown”, “content”: It’s basically unprecedented for a player so good and so young to play for so many teams. Soto will become just the sixth player to amass at least 20 career WARs in his age-25 season and play for at least three teams, while the other five all played before 1900. In other words, a player like this being traded twice before completing his season at age 25 was unheard of in modern baseball.\n\nSoto has drawn comparisons to one of the greatest hitters of all time, Ted Williams, and that for good reason. He is a career .284/.421/.524 hitter with an OPS+ of 157, the fifth highest of any player with 3,000 plate appearances in his age-24 season. The players above him? Ty Cobb, Mike Trout, Mickey Mantle and Jimmie Foxx – three Hall of Famers and one on the way. As Boone said, “He was one of our sport’s most solid performers on the offensive side of the ball. Year after year.”\n\nAnd now he’s a Yankee. news”,”subHeadline”:null,”summary”:”NASHVILLE, Tenn. – For months, the Yankees have imagined Juan Soto in pinstripes contemplating the sight of one of the world’s most prolific hitters taking aim at welcoming Yankee Stadium Porch in right field.\nThis tantalizing fantasy is about to become a reality.\nSoto is officially headed to the Bronx, adopted”,”tagline({\”formatString\”:\”none\”})”:null,”tags “:[{“__typename”:”InternalTag”,”slug”:”storytype-article”,”title”:”Article”,”type”:”article”},{“__typename”:”PersonTag”,”slug”:”playerid-665742″,”title”:”Juan Soto”,”person”:{“__ref”:”Person:665742″},”type”:”player”},{“__typename”:”TaxonomyTag”,”slug”:”trades”,”title”:”trades”,”type”:”taxonomy”},{“__typename”:”TaxonomyTag”,”slug”:”apple-news”,”title”:”Apple News”,”type”:”taxonomy”},{“__typename”:”TeamTag”,”slug”:”teamid-147″,”title”:”New York 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