Scott Boras, Juan Soto’s agent, said earlier this winter his client wants to see Washington’s Nationals are determined to compete before there’s any talk of the 23-year-old signing any long-term deal in the nation’s capital.
“Juan Soto wants to win,” Boras explained, “so the first thing that’s going to have to happen, is that he knows that he’s working with an ownership that’s going to annually try to compete and win.
“And then I think once he knows that then he’ll be ready to sit down and talk whenever they choose to talk.