There is no bigger free agent than one SOTO right
now, the athletic with this SOTO and the Boston
Red Sox reportedly had a productive meeting as part of
the presentation. The Red Sox highlighted their plans for
the future. Their young core and their history of
Dominican stars are no numbers or terms uh were exchanged
, but it was a productive meeting for SOTO.
The way I look at this man, it's a
lot of pressure on the Yankees. You have three
teams in the A all looking at Juan Soto with
the Blue Jays, the Red Sox and the Yankees
. And when you see the impact that he was
able to have in New York, I understand they
didn't win, but they made it to the World
Series. If you take him out of that Yankee
lineup, that's gonna be a huge hit for that
team. If you don't go after him, you're
gonna be forced to see him for the next 10
to 15 years playing in your division. And that's
a lot of heat that the Yankees would have to
deal with. William Thomas interest in him is very
broad. There's a number of teams that love him
at shortstop and why wouldn't you? But also some
that might consider him in a different position. We
could see the Dodgers, the Giants, the Yankees
, the Astros, if they don't resign. Bregman
, I love that idea. By the way,
you put Adama potentially at third Pena at short Altuve
at second, I would love that. Infield.
The Braves are involved. I'm told the Red Sox
and the Toronto Blue Jays who we know we've heard
plenty about their link to Juan Soto. They want
to get a major free agent Christian Walker. I
like him as a possibility for the aforementioned Yankees,
whether or not they resign, Juan Soto. And
I think in some ways, Matt and Ron,
there is even broader interest right now in Christian Walker
relative to Pete Alonso because the contract's gonna be probably
fewer total dollars and fewer years. He's also an
elite gold glove defender at first base. I just
talked about potentially the Braves being involved in Adamus.
They also have some interest. I'm told in Walker
Bueller, think about their pitching staff right now.
Max fried free agent Charlie Morton, free agent Spencer
Strider, still coming back from surgery. So for
all these reasons, Walker Bueller who we just saw
dining in the postseason, the Braves are close to
home for him. Of course, he's got the
Kentucky Roots. He pitched at Vanderbilt. It's a
nice fit for him. I'd also mentioned the Chicago
Cubs being a possibility. I wanted to uh announce
as uh the primary occasion for the Zoom call um
that our baseball operations department after uh care for deliberation
has decided to pursue modifications to the dimensions of our
left field wall in advance of 2025 opening day.
Our hope is by pulling uh the dimensions in a
little bit and in some areas, it will be
as much as 20 ft in others, it will
be more like 11 ft. What we were hoping
was a uh more neutral overall environment for the park
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