Rest assured, Major League Baseball has still only begun to feel the lasting impact of Juan Soto's massive contract.
When Soto signed for 15 years, $765 million with the New York Mets on Sunday, he became the highest-paid athlete in the history of professional team sports on a total-value basis. That's not great news for the Atlanta Braves, who now must face Soto 13 times per season.
The Soto deal stripped away the notion of a luxury tax-driven economy and placed the value of players strictly on how far an ownership group is willing to go to grab a player.