Home Baseball ‘Yankees are cooked’ ‘Glad it wasn’t Dodgers’ – Fans react as Juan Soto dusts Shohei Ohtani’s record with 15-year $765,000,000 Mets deal

‘Yankees are cooked’ ‘Glad it wasn’t Dodgers’ – Fans react as Juan Soto dusts Shohei Ohtani’s record with 15-year $765,000,000 Mets deal

Baseball — 12/09/2024

Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the New York Yankees 4-2 to win Game 2 of the 2024 World Series. - Source: Getty

Fans react as Juan Soto dusts Shohei Ohtani’s record with 15-year $765,000,000 Mets deal – Source: Getty

Juan Soto’s free agency saga comes to an end in record-breaking fashion as the superstar slugger has signed a MLB record 15-year $765,000,000 deal with the New York Mets.

MLB insider Jeff Passan first broke the news on Sunday and the reports were confirmed by other sources too. Soto’s deal break the largest contract in MLB history, set by the Los Angeles Dodgers’ $700 million offer over 10 years for Shohei Ohtani last offseason.

Juan Soto’s deal also included a $75 million signing bonus.also-read-trending

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Baseball fans reacted to the record-breaking deal, with a fan taking shot at the New York Yankees, one of the other frontrunners for Soto.

Another fan was glad the Dominican slugger didn’t join the Dodgers.

Mets beat rivals Yankees to Juan Soto’s signature by barest of margins

Several sources reported on Saturday that the Mets and Yankees increased their offer to over $700 million and were locked in a two-way race for the coveted free agent.

However, Steve Cohen’s Mets got one over their city rivals, especially after Juan Soto’s career-best season with the Yankees in 2024. According to reports, the Bronx Bombers also offered Soto $765,000,000, however, the contract was for 16 years instead of 15, bringing down the annual value to $47.5 million instead of the $51 million the All-Star will be earning with the Mets.