BT wants Yankees to follow Shohei Ohtani contract route with Juan Soto
After Juan Soto crushed another home run on Tuesday night, shortly after his agent Scott Boras discussed the superstar’s pending free agency, BT called for the Yankees to get creative in their contract negotiations to ensure that Soto remains in pinstripes.
The creativity lies in the Yanks offering a similar contract structure to what Shohei Ohtani signed with the Dodgers.
“‘Just give us 2-3 years of wiggle room and defer this,’” BT said. “Now it’s time for the Yankees to get creative like the Dodgers did. Figure it out. You’re so astute, so brilliant, and you have the resources. If you can’t construct something meaningful and enticing enough to usurp what is going to be a reckless offer from [Steve] Cohen, then that’s just pathetic.”
Ohtani signed a historic 10-year, $700 million contract with the Dodgers this past offseason, but deferrals will net the two-way superstar just $2 million per year for the next decade, before he makes massive money in deferrals starting in 2034. BT wants to see the Yankees do something similar, while he believes Cohen and the Mets won’t go that route.
“If I’m the Mets, I don’t,” BT said. “I think they need to do something that makes them stand alone.”
