zach bacharContributor IFebruary 22, 2024
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New york city Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner acknowledged that he hasn’t thought of the possibility of the group paying slugger Juan Soto a greater wage than Aaron Judge on a possible long-lasting agreement.
“I’m uncertain Judge would care if we got Juan Soto for several years to come,” Steinbrenner stated on Thursday, per Bryan Hoch of MLB.com. “But the marketplace is what the marketplace is, and he’s going to cost what he costs. We’ll simply need to wait and see.”
Judge signed a nine-year handle the group worth $360 million in Dec. 2022, while Soto is slated to strike complimentary firm at the end of the 2024 season.
New york city obtained the three-time All-Star in a smash hit trade with the San Diego Padres on Dec. 6 that included 7 overall gamers changing companies. Simply more than a month later on, the Yankees and Soto accepted a $31 million income for 2024 to prevent arbitration.
Regardless of doing not have a few of the private distinctions that Judge has actually made, it’s definitely possible that Soto gets a bigger agreement in complimentary firm. The 25-year-old is more youthful than Judge, who was 30 when he signed his offer, and has actually revealed to be a bit more resilient in current seasons. Considering that 2021, Soto has actually appeared in 466 regular-season video games compared to Judge’s 411.
It stays to be seen if the 2019 World Series champ will be getting his long-lasting offer from the Yankees. Basic supervisor Brian Cashman didn’t appear positive about the group keeping him in New York beyond the 2024 season, informing press reporters on Feb. 15 that “the chances are this is a 1 year circumstance.”
“I do not see a lot of things stopping him from reaching totally free firm,” Cashman stated.
Steinbrenner was likewise non-committal about Soto’s future with the Yankees, describing to the media on Thursday that he wasn’t able to decrease the chance to trade for him “even if it is for one year.”
“Hopefully it’s not,” he included, per Hoch.
In the meantime, the Yankees will concentrate on heading into their 2024 season with 2 of baseball’s leading players in the lineup as they try to go back to the playoffs after a frustrating 82-80 record in 2023.
