Juan Soto is getting paid.
The 26-year-old outfielder signed a 15-year, $765 million contract with the New York Mets, sources told ESPN's Jeff Passan. It has no deferrals and includes escalators that can reach above $800 million. The whopping deal is $65 million more than the one Shohei Ohtani agreed to last offseason with the Los Angeles Dodgers. However, the average annual value of Soto's deal is $51 million, the second-largest in MLB history, trailing only Ohtani's $70 million per year, per ESPN Research.
Soto joins a Mets clubhouse that already includes four-time All-Star Francisco Lindor, bolstering a side that fell short to the Dodgers in the NLCS -- the same team that defeated Soto and the New York Yankees in the World Series.