San Diego Padres fans have been preparing for this day for a while now and it has come. Juan Soto and Trent Grisham have been traded to the New York Yankees for Michael King, Drew Thorpe, Randy Vasquez, Jhony Brito and Kyle Higashioka. Joel Sherman was first to report that the deal was done.
The public knew about the players involved on early Wednesday afternoon but it took a while for the deal to become official due to medical information being exchanged between the two sides. Yankees GM Brian Cashman and manager Aaron Boone departed from the Winter Meetings later in the afternoon with San Diego continuing to be in Nashville where the baseball scouts dinner was taking place so there were some questions about when the deal was going to get into the end zone.