We have, for the most part, studiously avoided all the Juan Soto is going to get traded talk going around the internet in the last few weeks, with multiple writers (or the hopeful rival executives they talk to) suggesting with no long-term extension two and a half seasons away from free agency, the ownership’s reported attempts to sell the team, and the state of things early in Washington’s organizational reboot plan, the 23-year-old outfielder could be dealt.
“[R]ival execs say the Nationals might well be compelled — and motivated — to move Soto this summer,” Buster Olney wrote recently at ESPN.