Sure sounds as if Yankees missed the golden opportunity to stop Juan Soto from Mets

It was a few months ago since the New York Yankees lost Juan Soto Chase to the New York Mets. Steve Cohen offered more money – it’s really that easy – and won the bidding war with Scott Boras’ top customer. Soto will be a met for the next 15 years (provided that it is not traded or not selected) and should earn 765 million US dollars.

The Yankees offer was there in the end, but Hal Steinbrenner would never win a bidding war against Cohen. For the METs it was personal to sign Soto, and not just about improving your baseball team. The same applies to Soto, which was reported to be upset throughout the security of Yankees throughout the season and did not receive a personal box for his friends and family in the Yankee Stadium. These are things that the Yankees don’t do. I will not be the decisive factor whether this is right or wrong.

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At the end of January, Jon Heyman went into the METS talks with Soto and suggested that they were out of the running almost immediately.

“Back in the Topsy-Turvy Soto Talks, in which three bid rounds were set up, the Mets almost failed in round 1,” wrote Heyman. “After the METs initially offered around $ 500 million, as it suggested, they initially suggested about $ 41 million a year for $ 12, before they finally rose 50 percent at that moment, the meters seemed to be quick .

The Mets and Cohen obviously corrected their offer and received this opportunity from Boras. During this short window, however, one could argue that the Yankees missed their chance to keep Soto in pinstripes. By using the METS offer against them, Steinbrenner and Cashman should have argued that his NYC competition did not respect Soto. Instead, the Mets quickly came back into the Soto Chase and never looked back.

“After the mets sat down in the middle of things, they won this historical lottery for free agents. They did so by being competitive and learning everything they could (they could correctly suspected that it and the Yanke’s not all bidders) and especially from the family.

The Mets made an unforgettable comeback in the Soto negotiations, and maybe that was her plan all the time. Nevertheless, the Yankees had every opportunity to keep one of the best players in baseball, and more than once.