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Hal Steinbrenner asks: What would a comparable offer the Yanks would have had to the Padres offer for Soto?
Let’s start with the initial problem — if it’s true that the Nationals didn’t value Anthony Volpe like the rest of the league does, then there was never going to be a deal. How likely that is the case we’ll never know, but it’s not out of the realm of possibilities.