Juan Soto has broken the bank.
The New York Mets have swiped Juan Soto from their city rival, the New York Yankees, having reportedly signed Soto to the largest deal in professional sports history.
That would be to the tune of a whopping $765 million for 15 years.
Hard to even fathom that number.
After having helped the Yankees to their first World Series appearance since 2009, the young 26-year-old superstar was the biggest free agent this offseason.
And the Mets cashed in.
Soto won’t have to move, seeing as he’ll be staying in New York City, but Yankees fans may want to look away.
Soto is trading in his Yankee pinstripes for Met orange.
A move that is going to send shockwaves throughout Major League Baseball.
Soto’s contract surprises the contract that the Los Angeles Dodgers signed Shohei Ohtani to last offseason.
Ohtani’s contract was the largest deal at the time, at $700 million for ten years.
Soto’s new contract, obliterates that number.
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It is consecutive years that the sport of baseball has rewritten the record books when it comes to dollar signs.
Mets owner, Steve Cohen, has had a knack for spending big every since he bought the team in 2020.
In 2021, Cohen signed Francisco Lindor to a ten-year, $341 million, that signaled the dawning of a new age for the Mets.
Cohen is now pairing Soto with Lindor, paying the duo over $1 billion in total for their services.
Last season, the Mets made a late season run all the way to the NLCS, before losing to eventual World Series champions, Ohtani and the Dodgers.
Cohen clearly saw that as a sign, that they were close.
By inking Soto to a historic and record-setting deal, he is all in.
Not just for next season, but for the next 15.
