Dominican baseball player and current New York Yankees outfielder, Juan Soto, will be part of the free agency ranks once the 2024 Major League Baseball season ends, which will place him in a situation where the Dominican will have to be very attentive to a possible juicy contract to sign for the future.
Since his years of salary arbitration, the Dominican and new sensation in New York was expected tosigned his signature for a quite lucrative contract, which could end up being one of a value quite close to the one recently signed by the Japanese Shohei Ohtani.
$500 million in contract
Given the great talent, level and dedication in the game by Juan Soto, it was expected that the outfielder would have been the first player in breaking the wall of $500 million dollars in a contract, something that the Japanese Ohtani achieved by having stamped his signature on one of $700 million dollars when he decided to head his professional career towards the Los Angeles Dodgers where he will debut in the upcoming Major League campaign.
Juan Soto’s possible contract
Although the Dominican has not yet been able to sign the largest contract of his career as an active player, He could do it once he hits free agency and could even seal his signature in one quite close to Ohtani’s figures and have the second most valuable and largest contract of all time in Major League Baseball, this according to reports from The Athletic, having a prediction that Soto could reach a deal of $540 million dollars for a total of 14 years.
Soto would surpass Mike Trout
If this signing becomes a reality, Soto would be surpassing the contract signed by the American player Mike Trout, who reached an agreement for a total of $426.5 million dollars and is at the moment the second largest of all time in the Major Leagues, behind the one achieved by the Japanese Ohtani. Soto settled for a salary of $31 million in his final year of arbitration.
Soto numbers in the 2023 season
In the 2023 season, Juan Soto managed to hit a total of .275/.410/.519 with 35 home runs and 109 RBIsselected to the league’s All-Star game, won the third Silver Slugger of his career and placed sixth in the National League Most Valuable Player voting.
The new sensation in New York
The arrival of Juan Soto to the New York Yankees seems to have fallen like a glove for the Bronx squadespecially because of how productive the Dominican player has proven to be and that the Yankees shirt does not weigh him down at all, something that has been liked by the leaders in the organization and the fans, in his first games of Spring Training of 2024 of the MLB.
Soto seems quite motivated, confident and focused on having exceptional performanceespecially due to the fact that what he does in the 2024 Major League campaign will undoubtedly have a positive or negative effect on his aspirations to be able to finalize a large million-dollar contract once he enters free agency at the end of the season. season to come.
Soto hit a long home run to right-center field in a game where the New York Yankees and the Atlanta Braves They faced each other, showing that he can be taken into account immediately to be considered one of the clear candidates to fight for the American League Most Valuable Player award in the 2024 season.
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