According to comments made at Blake Snell’s introductory press conference with the Dodgers, Juan Soto and Scott Boras have begun to eliminate teams from the field of potential suitors. The same reports suggest that the teams still in contention - rumored to be the Mets, Yankees, Red Sox, Dodgers, and Blue Jays - all have bids of over $600 million, and that the signing will happen before or at next week’s Winter Meetings in Dallas for maximum exposure.
MLB.com put together a roundtable of insiders, including Mets’ beat reporter Anthony DiComo, to discuss the state of the Soto market, and while there isn’t a ton of hard news in there, there are a few items of note for Mets fans, with the big takeaway being that all the insiders either believe the Mets are the frontrunners or at least tied with the Yankees in that regard.