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[Mower Liberation Front]

765 million for Soto? Wow.

[StoutAndAle]

765 million for Soto? Wow.

Absolutely wild. I thought that the Ohtani deal would stand for a few years but it appears to have opened the floodgates for mental contracts.

At this rate, we'll have a $1bn MLB contract by 2030.

A guy on ESPN tried to rationalise it by say that it's over 15 years as opposed to Ohtani's 10-year deal.

$765m ÷ 15 years = $51m p.a.

$51m ÷ 162 games (reg season) = $314814.81 per game - if Soto played every single regular season game for 15 years.


It is a batshit amount of money - I have no doubts that Soto has Cooperstown in his future but most baseball fans will look as this as another nail in the coffin of the sport.

Also - the Yankees must be losing their fucking minds that they DIDN'T go into contract arbitration with him last year and only signed him to a one-year deal.

[Naraka]

No deferrals either!