Juan Soto reveals other MLB teams' offers exceeded Mets' bid during free agency

Just implicit 2 months ago, MLB prima Juan Soto signed a historical contract. A mates of weeks ago, helium joined the New York Mets successful Florida for outpouring training.

The 15-year, $765 cardinal woody helium signed was the astir lucrative declaration successful nonrecreational sports history. 

In mid-February, Soto inactive seemed to beryllium processing the life-changing contact. 

"I'm inactive reasoning astir it and everything. It's unbelievable," helium said astatine the time. "I'm truly blessed for that. I'm truly blessed to cognize wherever I'm going to beryllium for the adjacent 15 years."

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The New York Mets' Juan Soto during a outpouring grooming workout successful Port St. Lucie, Fla., Feb. 16, 2025. (Alejandra Villa Loarca/Newsday RM via Getty Images)

But Soto revealed helium received offers from different teams that exceeded the eye-popping magnitude the Mets presented.

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"The Mets didn’t connection the astir money," Soto said, speaking successful Spanish. "Some teams offered more." 

Soto aboriginal said the Mets' civilization was 1 of the reasons helium decided to permission the Bronx successful favour of Queens.

New York Mets close fielder Juan Soto plays drawback during a outpouring grooming workout astatine Clover Park.  (Sam Navarro/Imagn Images)

SNY reported "multiple teams, including Boston, had a willingness to transcend the precocious connection if they knew Soto would agree."

The New York Mets' Juan Soto hits a solo location tally during the archetypal inning of a outpouring grooming crippled against the Houston Astros Feb. 22, 2025, successful Port St. Lucie, Fla.  (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Soto volition deterioration his coveted No. 22 jersey with the Mets. Third baseman Brett Baty wore that fig the past 3 seasons. But Soto gave him a marque caller SUV during outpouring grooming to person the infielder to power to No. 7.

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"No, you didn’t," Baty said arsenic helium smiled and walked extracurricular the team’s outpouring grooming analyzable to spot Soto adjacent a Chevrolet Tahoe that had "Thanks for #22" scrawled connected the backmost window.

Baty, the 12th wide prime by the Mets successful the 2019 draft, was inactive driving the aforesaid 2016 Toyota 4Runner helium had successful precocious school.

"I truly admit the number," Soto told him. "It’s the archetypal 1 I ever wore."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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