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And he is probably not going to be with the Nats till FA.  If he’s on the block ( more likely next year)  the Giants should pursue him HARD. They have the money and perhaps the prospects to be in the mix.  Plus he seems to like SF. As he will be under team control you make the Tatis/Wander Franco move.

2025 is a lifetime away.    The Giants are not Baltimore.  They are poised to win NOW.  Soto would be an enormous get.  He’d also put butts in seats. Course, you only do it if you know you can lock him up for at least 10 years. 12 and $400,000,000 ought to do it.  They have the money. And it would not  their hands. 

Guarantee you the Dodgers will go after him hard. I bet the Padres will as well.

I strongly agree that it's the sort of move that SF should make, and the notion of being afraid to trade prospects makes no sense to me. Marco Luciano, who is a top-20 prospect, has a less than ~0.1% chance of ever being as good as Juan Soto. That's not hyperbole or a slam on Luciano, who projects to be a very good MLB player, it's just historical reality. Luciano is in high-A. At the exact age that Luciano is now Soto had already played two complete MLB seasons and put up 292/406/517 and 282/401/548 lines. The next season (meaning parallel to Luciano this season) he hit 351/490/695 in the shortened Covid season.

I do disagree about the feasibility of it, though. The Giants don't have the prospect value to get a deal done, and I assume the Nationals will also want young, cost controlled MLB-proven or MLB-ready players, of which SF has none.

Dodgers and Padres make sense but the team to look out for is the Mets, there's no limit to what Steve Cohen would do to acquire Soto. He didn't wait a year for Lindor to become a free agent. Granted Washington would be averse to trading within the division, but a Mets offer could be too strong to refuse. In any case, it's impossible to imagine the Giants winning a bidding war, even in the unlikely event that they entered into one.

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And he is probably not going to be with the Nats till FA.  If he’s on the block ( more likely next year)  the Giants should pursue him HARD. They have the money and perhaps the prospects to be in the mix.  Plus he seems to like SF. As he will be under team control you make the Tatis/Wander Franco move.

2025 is a lifetime away.    The Giants are not Baltimore.  They are poised to win NOW.  Soto would be an enormous get.  He’d also put butts in seats. Course, you only do it if you know you can lock him up for at least 10 years. 12 and $400,000,000 ought to do it.  They have the money. And it would not  their hands. 

Guarantee you the Dodgers will go after him hard. I bet the Padres will as well.

I strongly agree that it's the sort of move that SF should make, and the notion of being afraid to trade prospects makes no sense to me. Marco Luciano, who is a top-20 prospect, has a less than ~0.1% chance of ever being as good as Juan Soto. That's not hyperbole or a slam on Luciano, who projects to be a very good MLB player, it's just historical reality. Luciano is in high-A. At the exact age that Luciano is now Soto had already played two complete MLB seasons and put up 292/406/517 and 282/401/548 lines. The next season (meaning parallel to Luciano this season) he hit 351/490/695 in the shortened Covid season.

I do disagree about the feasibility of it, though. The Giants don't have the prospect value to get a deal done, and I assume the Nationals will also want young, cost controlled MLB-proven or MLB-ready players, of which SF has none.

Dodgers and Padres make sense but the team to look out for is the Mets, there's no limit to what Steve Cohen would do to acquire Soto. He didn't wait a year for Lindor to become a free agent. Granted Washington would be averse to trading within the division, but a Mets offer could be too strong to refuse. In any case, it's impossible to imagine the Giants winning a bidding war, even in the unlikely event that they entered into one.