David Cone sends message to Yankees fans about Juan Soto joining Mets

New York Yankees icon and present YES Community analyst David Cone made it identified final spring that he had no drawback with the truth that then-Yankees outfielder Juan Soto wished to achieve free company following the 2024 season. In fact, Soto in the end left the Yankees to signal a large cope with the New York Mets. 

Throughout a current chat with Bob Klapisch of NJ Advance Media, Cone despatched fairly a message to Yankees followers who’re nonetheless upset that Soto will likely be enjoying dwelling video games in Queens for the foreseeable future. 

“Recover from it,” Cone stated. “And the way you recover from it’s simply by what the Yankees are doing. You pivot.” 

Particularly, the Yankees acquired a number of massive names reminiscent of ace Max Fried, outfielder Cody Bellinger, nearer Devin Williams and first baseman Paul Goldschmidt after staff proprietor Hal Steinbrenner was prepared to give Soto $760M over 16 years. The slugger as an alternative signed a 15-year, $765M contract that would exceed $800M whole and included a $75M signing bonus, an opt-out after 5 years and no deferred cash to hitch the Mets. 

“I used to be amazed at how far (the bidding battle) went,” Cone stated about Soto’s free-agency saga. “It’s actually indicative of the present compensation system. You may have somebody like Soto, who drives all the things up so far as it could possibly go to seek out out what he can get in free company.”

A lot was made in December about how Mets proprietor Steve Cohen and his spouse, Alex, gained Soto’s mom over by providing the 26-year-old a set for his household at Citi Subject together with different “household companies.” Cone talked about that he “can perceive why” such additional touches would attraction to a famous person athlete. 

“I’ve seen it first-hand,” Cone defined. “The Cohen household, husband and spouse, are dynamic. They will make you’re feeling heat and fuzzy. I may see how Soto was going to really feel that manner about them.”

Solely time will inform if Steinbrenner is true concerning the Yankees having “a greater staff proper now than we did a yr in the past right this moment” and about not caving on a set for Soto as a result of gamers reminiscent of present staff captain Aaron Choose and Yankees legend Derek Jeter have beforehand paid for suites. With that stated, historical past exhibits Yankees followers will not react kindly if Soto helps the Mets turn out to be the New York staff that subsequent celebrates a World Sequence triumph. 

“He’s on the lookout for his personal nest,” Cone added about Soto. “He feels heat and fuzzy with the Mets.”