The Los Angeles Dodgers put a firm ceiling on what they were prepared to give star slugger Juan Soto in free agency, according to The Athletic's Patrick Mooney, Will Sammon, Brendan Kuty and Ken Rosenthal.
The report said the Dodgers "capped their offer to Soto at $600 million."
That lines up with what Rosenthal first reported on Dec. 2. He said the World Series champions "are doing what they often do with elite free agents, hanging around the backboard, seeing if the ball somehow falls into their hands."
Soto wound up getting $765 million over 15 years from the New York Mets, per ESPN's Jeff Passan, which is the single biggest contract in sports history.