If you’ve been on this site before you know how good Juan Soto is. If you’ve never been to this site before, welcome! You have picked a rather stop-and-start time to begin following our coverage. The Padres’ openness to trading arguably the best left-handed hitter in baseball has been in the news since the Rangers lifted the Commissioner’s Trophy, and the sheer number of different reports from credible sources mean, to me, that there’s something real to the whole thing.
Should he be dealt, Soto would be one of the all-time single season rentals. In July of 2022, Ken Rosenthal reported the slugger had turned down a 14-year, $440 million extension offer from the Nationals, the final straw in Washington’s decision to trade the 2019 World Series hero.