Yankees proprietor Hal Steinbrenner is scheduled to fly to Southern California for an in-person assembly with Juan Soto and agent Scott Boras, report Mark W. Sanchez and Jon Heyman of the New York Publish. The Publish reviews that the sit-down will happen in a few week a half — a number of days after Boras and Soto welcome Mets proprietor Steve Cohen.
Boras prompt at this week’s GM Conferences that Soto plans to fulfill with the possession group of each workforce that’s pursuing him. That made it an inevitability that he’d sit down with every of Cohen and Steinbrenner. The Yankees and Mets are the 2 most blatant suitors for the market’s high free agent.
Loads of groups would like to carry Soto into the fold. Heyman reported final week that not less than 11 groups had reached out to Boras to specific curiosity — the Giants, Dodgers, Blue Jays and Crimson Sox amongst them. Nonetheless, there’s hypothesis all through the trade that Soto is likeliest to land with one of many New York groups. Boras has publicly said that Soto is keen to signal wherever. Saying in any other case wouldn’t do his market any favors, in fact.
Phillies proprietor John Middleton opined in the present day that the bidding might come right down to the Yankees and Mets. “I’m afraid Juan Soto needs to be in New York, and I don’t thoughts being a stalking horse,” Middleton instructed Conor Smith of the Philadelphia Inquirer. “In some unspecified time in the future, if [president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski] and I get that feeling, we’ll most likely say, ‘You recognize what, we’re not going to win this’ as a result of we’ve each been the stalking horse earlier than. And if I have been an agent, I’d do it too. It’s completely good technique. I imply, it’s good. However on the finish of the day, I simply assume he likes New York.“
