{"id":90512,"date":"2024-12-08T22:51:55","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T03:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=90512"},"modified":"2024-12-08T22:51:55","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T03:51:55","slug":"mets-sign-juan-soto-record-15-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/12\/08\/mets-sign-juan-soto-record-15-year-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets Sign Top Free Agent Juan Soto to MLB-Record Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to reports, the New York Mets have won Major League Baseball\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/11\/12\/juan-soto-free-agent-options\/\" target=\"_self\">free agent<\/a> quest by signing outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=sotoju01,soto--004jua&amp;search=Juan+Soto&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-12-08_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Juan Soto<\/a>. Soto was the most anticipated name in the market this offseason. He met with multiple clubs, seeking a high-valued contract in both dollars and years. Soto has chosen cross boroughs to take his talents to Queens.\u00a0<\/span>Soto agreed to a 15-year, $765 million deal, per Jon Heyman of the New York Post. The amount is a record for professional sports.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Breaking: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=sotoju01,soto--004jua&amp;search=Juan+Soto&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-12-08_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Juan Soto<\/a> to the Mets. $765M. 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonHeyman\/status\/1865957135760142837?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 9, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Mets Sign Juan Soto to Record Contract<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Soto was the focal point of the 2024 postseason and the offseason. His seasonal performance and postseason performance increased his stock, almost parallel to Dodgers superstar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/o\/ohtansh01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-12-08_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shohei Ohtani<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The outfielder joined the New York Yankees in 2024 by trade. He occupied right field and the second spot of the lineup, hitting ahead of fellow superstar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/j\/judgeaa01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-12-08_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aaron Judge<\/a>. Soto delivered an All-Star season in the Bronx, slashing .288\/.419\/.569.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Soto played in 157 games out of 162. He saw 576 at-bats, recording 166 hits, 41 home runs, and 109 RBI. The outfielder walked more than he struck out, walking 129 times and striking out 119 times.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The slugger registered a league-leading 128 runs scored along with 328 total bases. Defensively, Soto had a .994 fielding percentage with 302 put-outs in 314 attempts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/10\/23\/yankees-alcs-takeaways-key\/\" target=\"_self\">Soto\u2019s postseason<\/a> was important to the Yankees&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/10\/06\/yankees-takeaways-game-1\/\" target=\"_self\">path to the World Series<\/a>. He saw 49 at-bats with 16 hits, four home runs, and nine RBIs. He struck out only nine times while walking 14 times, scoring 12 times with 31 total bases.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Soto slashed .327\/.469\/.633 in October. This season, Soto ranked first in the league in runs scored, third in the league in home runs, ninth in the league in batting average, second in the league in on-base percentage, and third in the league in slugging percentage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>After forming a one-two punch with Judge in 2024, Soto and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/l\/lindofr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-12-08_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Francisco Lindor<\/a> will be a terrifying ordeal for opposing pitchers for years to come with the Mets.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Brad Penner-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports, the New York Mets have won Major League Baseball\u2019s free agent quest by signing outfielder Juan Soto. Soto was the most anticipated name in the market this offseason. He met with multiple clubs, seeking a high-valued contract in both dollars and years. Soto has chosen cross boroughs to take his talents to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5126,"featured_media":91586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1071,35],"tags":[501,380,2133,2178],"class_list":["post-90512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mets","category-mlb","category-news","tag-aaron-judge","tag-francisco-lindor","tag-juan-soto","tag-shohei-ohtani"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91587,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90512\/revisions\/91587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}