Mets Sign Star Player To Record $765 Million Contract

MLB.com reports:

Many folks around baseball were still arriving in Texas on Sunday evening when the news began rippling through the industry. Only two words mattered. Soto. Mets.

The details emerged rapidly from there, filling in the gaps of a long-anticipated marriage between one of this generation’s finest hitters and perhaps the sport’s most eager team. The Mets on Sunday agreed to sign Juan Soto to a 15-year, $765 million contract, multiple sources said, by far the largest pact in Major League Baseball history.

It is an historic commitment for a franchise seeking exactly that. For the better part of half a decade, owner Steve Cohen has worked to make the Mets the envy of Major League Baseball — a team that can not only be competitive on the field, but also for all the most significant players in the sport.

Read the full article. In 2013, Mets owner Steve Cohen’s hedge fund agreed to pay $1.8 billion in fines in one of the largest insider trading scandals in history. He has an estimated net worth of $21.5 billion. In 2017, he appeared here when he donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund. Last year Cohen proposed building an $8 billion casino next to the Mets’ Citi Field stadium in Queens.