Reports last week had Juan Soto’s 16-year-old (as of Monday) brother Elian Soto, another left-handed hitting ballplayer, headed to the New York Mets’ organization, but Byron Kerr cited an anonymous source on Twitter on Monday afternoon who told the reporter Elian will instead, eventually, sign on with the Washington Nationals who gave a then-16-year-old Juan a $1.5M bonus when they signed him back in 2015.
Elian Soto is expected to get significantly less. New York Post writer Ken Davidoff wrote last week that, “league-wide expectation called for Soto to sign with the Mets for a bonus in the $50,000 range.