Five teams are offering Juan Soto a contract, including the Blue Jays

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Five teams offered Juan Soto a deal.

According to Randy Miller of NJ.com Five teams have offered free agent Juan Soto a deal: the Toronto Blue Jays, the Boston Red Sox, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Mets and Yankees. This report was confirmed by Jon Morosi in the early hours of Tuesday.

Soto is by far the best player on the free agent market. Last season with the Yankees, the 26-year-old hit .288/.419/.569 with a career-high 41 home runs in 713 at-bats. He also walked more (18.1%) than he struck out (16.7%) and finished with a 180 wRC+ and an 8.1 fWAR, the latter being a career-high.

The most shocking team to offer Soto a contract is the Dodgers, the reigning World Series champions. They beat Soto and the Yankees in the World Series, and they just paid out over $1.4 billion, with a “b,” last offseason for Teoscar Hernández, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Shohei Ohtani.

Last season, the Blue Jays were also believed to be a finalist for Ohtani’s services before he signed with the Dodgers. Our favorite team’s interest in Soto is to be expected, as they need a superstar bat to join Vladimir Guerrero Jr. to play. In addition to acquiring one of the best hitters in the sport, the Blue Jays would solve the need for a power bat in the sport. outfield. The Jays are seen as a dark horse to sign the 26-year-old.

Still, the Mets appear to be the favorites to sign Soto as owner Steve Cohen has deep pockets to get a deal done. The Yankees will always have a chance to sign him, especially since he went to the World Series with them. Finally, the Red Sox are sleepers to sign him because they have a deep farm system that they could use to strengthen the big league roster alongside Soto.

That said, it is unclear when Soto’s deal will be completed and which team he will sign with. It is believed that Soto will sign by the end of the Winter Meetings on December 12.

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