Juan Soto doesn’t think there’s anything he can do about whether he’s traded this season.
“For me right now, I’m just concentrating about baseball,” Soto said. “Can’t do anything about it. I have my hands tied. I’m just gonna play as hard as I can and play baseball and forget about anything else. I don’t make the decisions. … If they wanna make the decisions, I gotta just pack my stuff and go. If not, I’m gonna keep playing baseball as hard as I can.”
Soto’s agent, Scott Boras, has made it standard practice for his star players not to make counteroffers during negotiations. That puts the onus on the Nationals to bid against themselves until they offer a deal to Soto’s satisfaction. While $440 million would represent the largest contract ever signed in North American sports, the $29.3 million average annual value would rank just 20th in MLB history. Soto almost certainly would garner a higher AAV on the free-agent market, but the Nationals’ consideration of trading him reflects how talks have reached a price point they may not be willing to cross — especially with Boras unlikely to ditch his strategy by countering.
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