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Originally Posted by bluejays
Frankly, the price Soto is expecting, any team would be wise to walk away from. $400M, I can see that, sure ($40M/season), but any player asking for more than that, including Ohtani, is really stretching the limits on expected performance over the duration of that contract. If he's your final piece, sure. I just don't see how the Jays with so many holes, why they'd go for him? I know for sure they will and they'll try and win him at a very high cost, probably trade Bichette to get more starting lineup depth, but to me it's a bad approach at team building.
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I think a big chunk of the higher total Soto gets will be the extra years because he's so young compared to most FAs. Judge's deal goes to his age 39 season. For Soto that would be a 14 year deal, so even at $40MM that's $560 MM. Add a few deferrals in there and you can probably keep it as $40MM/year and have a headline number of $600MM.