Breaking news : Insider Predicts Yankees Will Re-Sign Juan Soto After ‘Smokescreen’ From Rivals

 

MLB insider Mark Feinsand of MLB.com predicts the New York Yankees will re-sign star outfielder Juan Soto.

Soto is expected to make his decision soon and it’s expected to come down to the Yankees, New York Mets, Toronto Blue Jays, and Boston Red Sox.

Recent reports have indicated that the Yankees are a distant third, but Feinsand doesn’t think that is true. Instead, he believes it’s a big smokescreen for the Yankees to spend more money.

 

“Ah, the misdirection,” Feinsand wrote on MLB.com. “This feels like a big smokescreen. Get the Blue Jays (and Red Sox?) involved to scare the Yankees about having to face him in the AL East for the next decade-plus. Get the Mets involved because they have the most money — and because the Yankees won’t want to lose him to the Mets and see him on the back pages for the next decade-plus.”

Soto was a key part of the Yankees offense last season and the hope for the Yankees is he will remain in the Bronx for the foreseeable future.

Feinsand also believes the Yankees will have the final offer to re-sign Soto.

 

Will he be “The Man” with the Mets? That’s Francisco Lindor’s team,” Feinsand wrote. “Maybe he would be the man in Boston. I think the Yankees believe they will have a final crack to match or beat whatever the best offer they have is, so why throw out your final number now? Soto and [agent] Scott Boras aren’t signing without taking that final deal back to the Yankees.”