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Originally Posted by Drake
@Ken_Rosenthal:
BREAKING: Juan Soto rejects $440M offer. Nationals will now entertain trading him. Story: https://t.co/u4ubuImb2S |
Rizzo/Lerner made that offer knowing Soto/Boras would reject it. Soto’s 23. The offer was for 15 years, which removes him from any meaningful FA class for the remainder of his time playing baseball.
The AAV on this offer is less than what Judge rejected from the Yankees. It would have been relatively nothing to get it to an even $30MM per year, which lends further credence to them wanting to trade him after saying “look how hard we tried”.