Quick Notes: Juan Soto's Possible Deal; A Closer Look
Hector Gomez reported that the Nationals and Juan Soto have been in serious negotiations around a 13-year/425 million dollar deal. If this is true, what does it really mean?
As mentioned in our previous post, Hector Gomez reported that the Nationals and Juan Soto have been in serious negotiations around a 13-year/425 million dollar deal. If this is true, what does it really mean?
This would be the second-largest deal of all time by total money, behind Mike Trout's 12-year/$426.5 million deal, though I'd expect Soto to try to push his deal over that number.
What really sets Soto apart is age. The only player on a 300+ MM deal who is younger than Soto is Fernando TatÃs Jr. Even then, Soto would average almost 8 million more a year than Fernando Tatis jr. This brings us to AAV. Soto's AAV would be about $32,700,000.
Yeah, that's a lot of money.
Currently, FanGraphs has found teams are willing to spend ~$8.5 million per fWAR. Therefore, the Nationals are expecting Juan to put up about 4 fWAR a year, and about 50 fWAR over the course of the deal. While the deal is nowhere near done, it is absolutely plausible and would be monumental.
More to come...
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