The Los Angeles Dodgers won the Shohei Ohtani sweepstakes last offseason. Now, they're reportedly about to enter the Juan Soto sweepstakes.
Soto, the prize of this year's free agent class, reportedly was scheduled to sit down with the Yankees on Monday following meetings with the Red Sox, Mets and Blue Jays.The Dodgers shelled out more than $1 billion in contracts last offseason as they brought in the likes of Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Tyler Glasnow and Teoscar Hernández. A majority of the spending spree was a 10-year, $700 million deal for Ohtani and a 12-year, $325 million deal for Yamamoto.
's best regular-season record and capturing the franchise's first World Series in a full season since 1988 -- seemingly are prepared to make another massive, long-term financial commitment in order to add Soto to their star-studded team.Soto has consistently been one of the game's top players throughout his seven-year career -- and he only just turned 26 last month. In his first season with the Yankees, Soto hit .288/.419/.569 with 41 home runs and 109 RBIs in 157 games.
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