The Juan Soto free agency madness finally came to an end Sunday night when it was revealed that the 26-year-old superstar agreed to a deal with the New York Mets in the largest contract in professional sports history: $765 million over 15 years, per ESPN's Jeff Passan.
The baseball world had been waiting on this news for weeks, so of course social media was ablaze with reactions to the historic contract.
Soto will now leave the Yankees in the Bronx (though they did reportedly make him an offer) to play with Steve Cohen's Mets in Queens. In his year wearing the pinstripes, Soto racked up a career-high of 41 home runs and 109 RBIs.
Here's how fans reacted to the news:
Just about the only man (team) alive that could out-bid the NY Yankees, just did.
— Steve Melewski (@masnSteve) December 9, 2024
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) December 9, 2024
Truly cannot believe Soto will be a Met when I'm in my 50's.
— Alex Fast (@AlexFast8) December 9, 2024
MLB executives widely predicted last week that Juan Soto was going to the New York Mets and that Steve Cohen would not be out-bid.
— Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) December 9, 2024
They were right!
$765 million, the largest contract in sports history.
tell your kids to play baseball
— Sung Min Kim ⚾️ (@sungmin_kim_) December 9, 2024
Wow. $765m with no deferments means Soto tops Ohtani by $300m plus in adjusted dollars https://t.co/WbWrQZQky4
— Travis Sawchik (@Travis_Sawchik) December 9, 2024
765 might be the record for a long while. https://t.co/hyYiKsuuj0
— Wayne Randazzo (@WayneRandazzo) December 9, 2024
Juan Soto turned down 15 years, $440 million from the Nationals in July 2022. He winds up getting 15 years, $765 million from the Mets in Dec. 2024. The great ones almost always do better waiting for free agency.
— Mark Zuckerman (@MarkZuckerman) December 9, 2024
Also, if you're a Yankees fan, do you have to wonder how much Juan Soto valued remaining a Yankee if the money was this close at the end?
— Brendan Kuty 🧟♂️ (@BrendanKutyNJ) December 9, 2024
What if someone told you two years ago, after Aaron Judge signed for $360 million, that the Yankees would soon offer another player $400 million more than that… and that player would turn it down? https://t.co/dcdNNes2Wq
— Ian O'Connor (@Ian_OConnor) December 9, 2024
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This article was originally published on www.si.com as MLB World Floored By Juan Soto's Record-Setting Contract With Mets.
