Juan Soto

Maybe just maybe Soto wants to be JUDGEment free

I wonder with the Boras opt out thing, that a front loaded contract favors that. The Sox, having a cost controlled core for the next 6 years can more-easily facilitate that by giving him the cash in those years.
Is that a valid thought process?

It literally makes your organs vibrate and feel terrible and yet I can’t stop drinking it

Even invented the tequila-Celsius recently. The Teqelsius. Aka the thinking man’s 4Loko. Might be a bit of an Icarus situation though, flying too close to the sun w that one

Depends on the flavor, I suppose. They had a cactus lime one that's pretty dang good. C4 has some very good flavors and some 300MG caf stuff. I'm mostly agnostic since they're all probably just cancer in a can.

And, it does legit seem to be a tossup between the Mets and Red Sox for Soto, and I'd be very happy with either result. I have a gut feeling Soto is going to sign with the Sox, though that might be all the energy drinks and beer.

For CBT, It's the AAV the whole way if he doesn't opt-out and if he does opt-out there would be an accounting correction for the diifference. So if the team gives Soto 50mil a year for 4 years, but the AAV is 45mil (due to the lower values later in the contract), and he opts-out after 4 years, there would be a sum of 20mil added to the Red Sox CBT for the pursuing years which are nullified; if 10 years were nullified then 2mil per year would be added to CBT for 10 seasons.

From CBA:

It’s already barred by the NCAA. My student-athlete was apoplectic when she found that out.

I suppose it can’t be worse than the greenies the old timers used to take.

Heyman says the Mets/Soto meeting was at Cohen's house.

Having been a long tenured member on this site, I find it fascinating, the dearth of posts about the back end of the contract.  I can remember many posts on that in previous FA deals.

Maybe that is because of the player (age or talent) or maybe it is because people are tired of not being in the playoffs and / or playing in top Tier FA market sandbox.

Just commentary on my part, not slinging arrows.

It is a lot of money for 1 guy at 15/700.  If you go that high, not sure it really matters if you go to 750, for that matter.  What, an extra 3.5 million a year in AAV ? Doesn't seem that consequential in the overall scheme of things.  At that point you have already bit the bullet.

Gonna be interesting.  I don't really consider him that important a player relative to his peers, but would be very exciting.

You're 100% correct, but I think that is part of the math. If Cohen or the Yankees are willing to go X, then then value prop doesn't actually matter. It'd cost the Yankees $1.2 Billion+ to sign Soto. Mets are not too far under. If FSG has to pay $1B or less, then it is a good value prop considering inflation, the upcoming recession, World War 3, etc, etc, etc. vs live sports as a distraction + future merch sales/rights/King of DR influence/colonization of Haiti making it part of the USA and King Soto has good relations.

Oh so it’s like the new orange stealth

I mostly agree with this, but I want to caution about thinking too much in terms of percentages. $50 million doesn't seem like that much when compared to $700 million, but it's a decent chunk ot change on its own! That's just a hair under what we still owe Yoshida, for example, and there has been much lamenting about him still being owed that much. In practice, Yoshida will likely defray a good chunk of that $50 million with on-field performance, so the actual amount of wasted money is way less than that. Meanwhile the difference between $750 million for Soto and $700 million for Soto is the full $50 million (minus currency devaluation from inflation).