On Monday at Major League Baseball’s Winter Meetings, Yankees basic supervisor Brian Cashman met with reporters hours after shedding out on famous person free agent Juan Soto.
Soto, after a superlative 2024 season with the Yankees, wound up agreeing to a report 15-year, $765 million contract with Steve Cohen and the crosstown New York Mets. The bidding was fairly clearly feverish, and the Yankees, regardless of huge assets and the supposed incumbent’s benefit, had been unable to maintain Soto within the Bronx. As for Cashman, he defended the efforts of proprietor Hal Steinbrenner to re-sign Soto. Specifically, Cashman stated:
“I might say Hal went above and past to attempt to discover a solution to hold Juan Soto in pinstripes. … There’s quite a lot of methods to determine this factor out. We’re simply gonna have to determine a special manner.”
While there is a “nicely, what’s he imagined to say” aspect to this provided that Steinbenner indicators Cashman’s test, on this occasion it is a defensible stance. According to a number of experiences, the Yankees provided Soto $760 million over 16 years. Given what it took to get Soto, that qualifies as a vigorous, good-faith effort on the a part of the Yankees. It says one thing not notably good concerning the Yankees that it wasn’t sufficient to deliver Soto again, however the cash wasn’t actually the issue.
Speaking of cash, the Yankees have loads of it, and now they do not have it dedicated to Soto. They nonetheless want outfield assist, a robust rotation addition, and a few bullpen reinforcements. In the aftermath of his former famous person’s departure, Cashman cautioned towards considering the Yankees would spend at Soto ranges regardless of Soto now not being available on the market — like “drunken sailors” in his model however that definitely does not imply a quiet winter the remainder of the best way.
