The Yankees can devise Plan Bs, but just about any would be seen externally as a disappointment.
“I want him in pinstripes moving forward,” Boone said during a Zoom call Monday. “But you also know there’s going to be a lot of people competing for that, and who knows where it ends up. All I know is that we’ll try and put our best foot forward with it and hope that Juan’s back.” Hal Steinbrenner will lead a Yankees cohort that Boone believed would be “fairly small.
“Let the meeting go where it needs to go,” Boone said of his strategy. “Maybe he’ll have questions now that he is a free agent or want to address certain things, but I’m just going to go in there and be myself and confident in my relationship with Juan and the ability to have honest conversation with him and certainly, hopefully cement the point of how valuable and how much we think of him, not only as a player, but as a person.
“I got to live that with him this year. And so that would be my sales pitch: Of course how much we want him, but let the meeting go where it goes.”Soto’s excellence helped bring the Yankees three wins away from a World Series title, but the clubhouse presence was a positive, too. Boone called getting to know Soto “a pleasure.”
Because of his brilliance and his age, Soto is the best free agent on the market and one of the best ever to hit the market. “Whatever happens,” Boone said, “I’m confident that the Steinbrenner family and the front office are going to do everything possible to put us in a position to have another strong team — another team that has a chance to compete for a championship. They’ve done that long before I got here, and I know that’ll continue to be the case.
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