The 23-year-old Washington Nationals slugger – available after reportedly rejecting a 15-year, $440 million contract offer – says dealing with rumors has “been pretty tough.”
LOS ANGELES ― A man can dream about winning a Home Run Derby. If you’re Washington Nationals slugger Juan Soto, a trophy and a medallion were waiting for you at Dodger Stadium on Monday, offering proof that dreams can come true.
A man can dream about recruiting Trea Turner to play for the same club that traded him to the Dodgers last year, too. Turner is a free agent at the end of this season. If you’re Juan Soto, why not?Levity might be the last refuge of the one player upon whom an entire trade deadline rests. Now, with more than two years remaining before he reaches free agency, the baseball world is salivating at the prospect of seeing Soto play for a winner again. Washington began the week with a 32-65 record. The trade deadline is Aug. 2 at 3 p.m. PT. That whistling crescendo you hear is the boiling kettle on baseball’s hot stove.
Fans elected Soto to start the All-Star Game for the National League last Tuesday. Soto was playing center field when, at one point in the game, a group of fans chanted “Fu-ture Dod-ger” in his direction from the bleachers. Soto turned and grinned.“I never think about because I never see myself in any of that,” Soto said. “I’ve always been loyal to the Nationals, I’ve always been there for them. You see everywhere I’m going, they try to pull me out of my team.
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