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Yankees GM Brian Cashman defends decision to not offer Juan Soto a free Yankee Stadium suite

The New York Yankees did not re-sign Juan Soto, but still had to spend part of the MLB winter meetings talking about the newest member of the New York Mets.

One interesting wrinkle to emerge from the postmortem of the Yankees' attempt to re-sign Soto has been the question of stadium suites, and whether a player should pay for them. Per the New York Post's Jon Heyman, one thing that differentiated the Mets' offer was a free suite at Citi Field.

The Yankees declined to offer the same at their own stadium, citing precedent of past greats paying for suites:

"The Yankees shouldn’t be faulted for bidding a whopping $760M, but they wouldn’t budge on the suite.