The latest on Juan Soto: The bidding for superstar outfielder Juan Soto in MLB free agency appears to be reaching a fever pitch.
The Red Sox are reportedly “still in” on attempting to sign the 26-year-old slugger, and appear to be fully committed to trying to bring him to Boston.
Still, the price tag could rise to levels previously unseen in baseball. Following the seemingly unreachable $700 million figure that Shohei Ohtani signed with the Dodgers a year ago, Soto’s total deal may actually exceed it.
“It’s a perfect storm of bidding, and through the use of deferrals, it does not seem out of the realm of possibility that the broad strokes of his deal could be something in the range of $750 million over 15 years,” noted ESPN baseball reporter Buster Olney in a recent writeup alongside fellow MLB insider Jeff Passan.