With Juan Soto headed to The Bronx after the Yankees’ megatrade with the Padres, there’s already one superstar on his way to New York.
Will there be another soon?
Neither the Yankees nor the Mets seem especially interested in chasing after Shohei Ohtani, but his landing spot in free agency will certainly have an impact on their respective pursuits of the next-biggest name on the market: Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
The Yankees and Mets are considered by some the 25-year-old right-hander’s most likely landing spots, but both teams will still face competition for the pitcher, who is expected to be the next standout from Japan and could start a bidding war that gets him a deal worth perhaps as much as $300 million.
Here’s a look at what the teams in the mix have to offer Yamamoto before his posting window closes on Jan. 4:
Mets
David Stearns, the team’s new president of baseball operations, had an uneventful first winter meetings with the Mets.
Yamamoto could change all that.
Here’s what they have…
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