The Yankees Were Right To Not Give Juan Soto’s Family a Suite

Over the weekend, my wife and I were harassed by my wife’s boyfriend who could not leave me alone about Juan Soto choosing to take the New York Mets blood money over re-joining the most prestigious organization in professional sports and electing not to create a legacy for himself and his ancestors.

Mets fans are so eager to bend the knee to Juan Soto, allowing him to take whatever he wants from their team and they’re all smiling and asking if there’s anything else they can help him with.

According to Jon Heyman of the New York Post, Juan Soto signed with the Mets because they gave him a free suite at Citifeld for his family while the Yankees refused to do so because they never did it with Derek Jeter or Aaron Judge.

“All along, the Mets’ offers ran only slightly ahead, and it’s possible only relatively small things helped, too. The combination of perks that included a signing bonus of $75M (the Yankees offered $60M), escalators that can take the deal to $805 million, a no-trade clause, no deferrals (the Yankees also had none), the fifth-year opt-out (at age 30), and a suite for the Soto family probably helped push them over the finish line.

“The Yankees shouldn’t be faulted for bidding a whopping $760M, but they wouldn’t budge on the suite. The Yankees felt they couldn’t give a suite to Soto when Judge pays for his suite, and even Derek Jeter paid. They were willing to discount a suite but not alter their precedent.

“Cohen didn’t give the suite much of a thought. When he has his eyes on a prize, he is singularly focused.” (NYP)

Congratulations to the Mets for letting Juan Soto walk all over them.

The Yankees, fortunately, have some pride.

And I get it.

Some people believe teams should give away suites to their best players—that these athletes who’ve dedicated their lives, sacrificed endless hours, to put themselves in a position to sign a life-changing contract and have earned the right for their families to be able to watch them play in one of the suites.

But that’s not how you run a 27-time championship-winning culture.

The Yankees can’t give out suites to players.

They wouldn’t be able to sell those spots to bank execs and Wall Street bros and all the new weird-faced alcoholics who work for Trump now.

Last time I checked, the point of running a business is to make money.

The Yankees aren’t giving handouts to some random “cousins” for one player, especially when they haven’t given that to Aaron Judge.

The Mets are creating a slippery slope.

First, you give Juan Soto a no-trade clause and free suites, and next thing you know, Brett Baty refuses to show up to games unless they drop a new Mercedes off at his front door before every game day.

Private jets for every Tylor Megill niece and nephew and they’re little friends to travel to road games.

While Steve Choen hemorrhages money on free tomahawk steak night for the Lindor family and country club memberships for Kodai Senga’s uncles, the Yankees will continue building a team the right way.

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