MLB superagent Scott Boras just negotiated the biggest contract of his life.
The New York Mets signed four-time All-Star Juan Soto to a record-breaking 15-year, $765 million contract on Thursday. It’s the largest trade in professional sports history.
Soto will become the first MLB player to earn more than $50 million in a season.
“Half the league wants to be involved,” Boras said on CNBC’s “Power Lunch.” “A lot of teams are looking for that rare value because at the end of the day, it’s just good business to get it.”
Boras spoke about the difficult decisions Soto and his staff made in finding the best fit. One factor in his decision was his recent performance at Citi Field, where the Mets play.
“Juan Soto’s level of performance at Citi Field is well known to him,” Boras said. “He’s playing at the highest level and guys are going to think about execution. You have to take all of those factors into consideration.”
In Soto’s 35 games at Citi Field, the left-handed hitter had 12 home runs, 26 RBIs, a .466 on-base percentage and a .709 slugging percentage.
his longest home run His career high, 466 feet, was completed on August 12, 2020 at Citi Field.
Boras also said it’s not all about the money for the 26-year-old.
“When you’re an athlete, you think about everything, but mostly you also think about your day-to-day work and performance,” Boras said. “There’s more to it than the economy.”
Soto said during his introductory press conference that the Mets treated him like family.
“They showed me a lot of love in terms of what they had and how they were going to try to make it comfortable. That was one of the things that impressed me more and how they were going to treat everyone around me and me. family,” Soto said.
