One of the best young players in baseball may be heading elsewhere in the near future.
On Saturday, The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal reported that star Washington Nationals outfielder Juan Soto has rejected what would be a record-breaking 15-year, $440 million contract and is now likely to be traded.
This is a massive departure from what the Nationals expected. On June 1, general manager Mike Rizzo stated that the team had no intentions of trading the 23-year-old and wanted to build the franchise around him. But after Soto rejected a contract that would’ve exceeded the total value of the 12-year, $426.5 million deal that Mike Trout signed with the Angels in 2019, things have changed.
