{"id":6971,"date":"2024-12-03T02:34:09","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T02:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=6971"},"modified":"2024-12-03T02:34:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T02:34:09","slug":"yankees-still-in-running-to-sign-juan-soto-as-negotiations-go-to-round-3-heyman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=6971","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Still in Running to Sign Juan Soto as Negotiations Go To Round 3: Heyman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Yankees-Still-in-Running-Juan-Soto.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" alt=\"Juan Soto gestures.\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\" class=\"wp-caption\">\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juan Soto<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Just a week after\u00a0reporting that the New York Yankees\u00a0were facing a \u201crising threat\u201d from their arch-rivals the Boston Red Sox in the hunt to sign generational free agent slugger Juan Soto, veteran\u00a0<em>New York Post<\/em>\u00a0baseball insider Jon Heyman reported on Monday that the Bombers remain very much in contention for the 26-year-old who belted a carer-high 41 homers last season.<\/p>\n<p>Heyman\u00a0appeared on the\u00a0<em>Foul Territory<\/em>\u00a0podcast, hosted by former MLB Network reporter Scott Braun and retired Major League catcher A.J. Pierzynski, to relay his latest updates on the quest to acquire Soto. The columnist said that he expects Soto to make his decision within days.<\/p>\n<h2>Soto Decision \u2018Perhaps\u2019 Just One Week Away<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cI would say we\u2019re only perhaps a week away from something coming to fruition,\u201d Heyman told the podcast. \u201cI think they\u2019ve gone through two rounds of bidding. I think we\u2019re up to the next round, and maybe we\u2019ll start to see some teams eliminated. I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s going to become public or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But despite reports that the Red Sox are now strong contenders for Soto, as are the New York Mets, causing the Yankees\u00a0significant worry that they can retain the superstar, Heyman said that Yankees are still \u201cinvolved\u201d and have a shot.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Heyman reported that at least until the next round of bidding on Soto is complete, all five teams that have been reported as making offers to Soto are still in the running. In addition to the Yankees, Red Sox and Mets, the Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays remain in contention to land Soto.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBasically, I would give any of these five teams a shot,\u201d Heyman said. \u201cAny of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Heyman in\u00a0his\u00a0<em>New York Post<\/em>\u00a0column reported that the Yankees had \u201cupgraded their initial bid\u201d for Soto, \u201cimproving their position in a sweepstakes that involves at least five big-market teams.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Chance Exists That Soto Does Not Take Highest Bid<\/h2>\n<p>Heyman did not, however, report details of what the Yankees upgraded offer actually was. He did report that the Yankees expressed their willingness to add opt-out clauses to Soto\u2019s contract, giving the star a chance to test free agency again before he turns 30. But Heyman added that the opt-out provision probably wouldn\u2019t make a difference because the other contenders for Soto\u2019s services would also include opt-out clauses.<\/p>\n<p>Braun asked Heyman if, in his view, there was any chance that Soto would not simply accept the highest cash offer that he receives. The baseball insider responded that though there was some possibility that Soto might not go to the highest bidder, it was \u201cnot likely\u201d that anything but the highest bid would get the job done.<\/p>\n<p>However, Heyman pointed out in each of the previous two years the superstar free agent on the market accepted a lower money offer to play in the city where he wanted to live. In\u00a02023-2024 Shohei Ohtani took\u00a0a deal with the Dodgers that deferred about 97 percent of his payments for an entire decade.<\/p>\n<p>The previous offseason, Yankees home run king\u00a0Aaron Judge spurned\u00a0a $415 million, 12-year offer from the San Diego Padres to stay in the Bronx on a $360 million, 10-year deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juan Soto Just a week after\u00a0reporting that the New York Yankees\u00a0were facing a \u201crising threat\u201d from their arch-rivals the Boston Red Sox in the hunt to sign&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Yankees Still in Running to Sign Juan Soto as Negotiations Go To Round 3: Heyman - 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