Soto declined the Yankees' one-year, $21.05 million qualifying offer Tuesday, Jon Heyman of the New York Post reports.
It was a formality that Soto would decline it, of course, but by extending it the Yankees will now net a draft pick in the event they are unable to re-sign the superstar. Soto has already had free-agent meetings with the Blue Jays, Red Sox, Yankees and Mets and will meet with the Dodgers on Tuesday.
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Juan Soto: Receives qualifying offer
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Soto received a qualifying offer from the Yankees on Monday, Chris Kirschner of The Athletic reports.
Soto is expected to decline the offer in what is simply a procedural move for the Yankees, who would receive draft compensation should the 26-year-old superstar sign with another team in free agency. Soto is the biggest name headed to the open market, and he's coming off his first season with the Yankees with a slash line of .288/.419/.569 with 41 home runs and 109 RBI across 713 plate appearances during the regular season.
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Yankees' Juan Soto: Sitting for regular-season finale
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Soto is absent from Sunday's lineup against the Pirates, Chris Kirschner of The Athletic reports.
The Yankees will start Jasson Dominguez, Aaron Judge and Alex Verdugo in the outfield for Sunday's regular-season finale. Unless he comes in to pinch hit, Soto will end his first season with the Yankees having slashed .288/.419/.569 with a career-best 41 home runs and 109 RBI over 713 plate appearances.
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Yankees' Juan Soto: Clubs 41st homer
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Soto went 2-for-4 with a walk, a home run, two runs scored and three RBI in Wednesday's 9-7 loss to the Orioles.
The 25-year-old slugger took Zach Eflin deep for a two-run shot in the fifth inning, but the Yankees were already in an 8-1 hole at that point. Soto's 41 homers on the season continues to add to his career-best total, and he sits just two RBI short of tying the career-high 110 he racked up in 2019 with the Nationals.
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Yankees' Juan Soto: Returns to lineup
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Soto (knee) will start in right field and bat second Saturday against the Athletics.
Soto injured his knee during Thursday's contest and was scratched from Friday's lineup due to lingering soreness, though he was able to enter as a pinch hitter and log an RBI double. He'll now return to the starting nine Saturday to face JP Sears.
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Yankees' Juan Soto: Scratched from lineup
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Soto (knee) was removed from Friday's lineup against Oakland, Bryan Hoch of MLB.com reports.
Soto suffered a knee injury in Thursday's game against Seattle after crashing into the wall in the seventh inning. X-rays came back negative, and he was poised to return to the lineup Friday, but he's been removed due to soreness and swelling in the affected knee. Aaron Judge will shift to right field with Soto out, and Trent Grisham will enter the lineup to start in center.
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Yankees' Juan Soto: In Friday's lineup
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Soto (knee) will start in right field and bat second Friday against the Athletics.
X-rays on Soto's left knee came back negative after he crashed into the outfield wall during Thursday's contest, and he appears to be feeling well enough to return to the field for Friday's series opener. Since the start of September, the 25-year-old is slashing .241/.405/.448 with three homers and seven RBI across 74 plate appearances, and he'll have a favorable matchup Friday against right-hander J.T. Ginn, who owns a 4.94 ERA on the season.
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Yankees' Juan Soto: Suffers knee injury
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Soto will undergo X-rays on his left knee after crashing into the wall in the seventh inning of Thursday's game against the Mariners, Gary Phillips of the New York Daily News reports.
Soto made a sliding catch in foul territory and landed hard into the wall. He remained in the game, and the imaging is considered precautionary. However, Soto added after the contest that his availability for Friday's matchup with the Athletics is in question, depending on his level of soreness.
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Yankees' Juan Soto: Swipes sixth bag in win
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Soto went 1-for-2 with two walks and a stolen base in Wednesday's extra-inning win over the Mariners.
Soto walked and stole second in the opening frame but was left stranded as the Yankees' offense failed to get much of anything going throughout the contest. He then added his 30th double of the campaign in his second trip to the plate and went on to reach three times in the contest. Soto has hit safely in each of his last three games, while the stolen base was his first since July 10 against Tampa Bay. He's batting .255 (14-for-55) in September with three homers, seven RBI, 11 runs and 14 walks.
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Yankees' Juan Soto: Reaches 40 homers
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Soto went 2-for-2 with a two-run homer, two walks and three runs scored in Tuesday's win over the Mariners.
Soto's home run in the fourth was the 200th of his career, and the 25-year-old now has his first 40-homer season and a home run in every single MLB ballpark. Soto hasn't been hitting the ball all that well lately but has still managed to reach base 12 times over his last eight games despite a .214 average in that span. For the year, he's slashing .287/.417/.576 with 103 RBI, 120 runs, five steals and a 121:110 BB:K in 671 plate appearances.
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Yankees' Juan Soto: Clubs homer in victory
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Soto went 1-for-5 with a two-run home run Wednesday in a 4-3 extra-inning win against Kansas City.
The Yankees were being shut out by Cole Ragans until Soto swatted a go-ahead two-run shot to right field in the sixth inning. The blast was the star outfielder's 39th of the season and pushed him to the 100-RBI mark. It's the third time in his career that Soto has reached the latter total, and with one more homer he'll have his first 40-homer campaign.
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Yankees' Juan Soto: Goes yard in loss
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Soto went 3-for-3 with a two-run home run, a double and a walk in Wednesday's 10-6 loss to the Rangers.
Soto had gone eight games without a homer entering Wednesday, his longest drought since June 4-14. The outfielder's blast got the Yankees on the board in the fifth inning, but they weren't able to overcome an early deficit after the Rangers padded their lead in the late innings. Soto is up to 38 homers, 98 RBI, 112 runs scored, five stolen bases and 28 doubles while slashing .295/.423/.592 through 136 contests.
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Yankees' Juan Soto: Clubs homer Sunday
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Soto went 2-for-4 with a solo home run, an additional RBI and a walk in Sunday's 10-3 win over the Rockies.
Soto knocked in a run with an RBI single in the second inning, then started a sequence of back-to-back-to-back homers in the seventh. While Soto is hitting just .182 (6-for-33) over his last nine games, three of those hits have been homers. The star outfielder has a .299/.429/.606 slash line, 37 long balls, 95 RBI, 108 runs scored and five stolen bases over 127 contests this year.
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Yankees' Juan Soto: New career high in homers
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Soto went 2-for-3 with a walk, a double, a home run and five RBI in Wednesday's 8-1 win over the Guardians.
The five RBI tied a season high, while Soto's two-run shot in the first inning off Joey Cantillo gave the 25-year-old superstar 36 homers on the year, establishing a new career high. Soto has been on fire in August, and over the last nine games he's slashing .290/.476/1.097 with eight long balls, 11 runs,13 RBI and an 11:4 BB:K.
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Yankees' Juan Soto: Keeps rolling Wednesday
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Soto went 1-for-2 with a solo home run, three walks and three total runs scored in Wednesday's 10-2 win over the White Sox.
Soto opened the scoring with a first-inning solo shot. He walked in his last three plate appearances, including once intentionally during the Yankees' eighth-inning rally. Soto's last six hits (over a span of four games) have all been homers, giving him 34 on the year. He's added a .307 average, 1.052 OPS, 87 RBI and a major-league-leading 103 runs scored through 118 contests.
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Yankees' Juan Soto: Bashes three homers in win
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Soto went 3-for-4 with three home runs, four RBI and a walk in Tuesday's 4-1 win over the White Sox.
Soto went yard in his second, third and fourth at-bats, taking Jonathan Cannon deep twice and adding his third homer off reliever Fraser Ellard. Soto has five hits over the last three games, and all of those knocks have been homers. The power surge has him up to 33 long balls this year in addition to 86 RBI, 100 runs scored, 24 doubles, four triples, five stolen bases and a .306/.434/.608 slash line through 117 contests.
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Yankees' Juan Soto: Launches two homers Sunday
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Soto went 2-for-5 with two solo home runs in an 8-7 win against Texas on Sunday.
Soto swatted a solo homer in the third inning and another in the seventh. The two long balls pushed his total to 30 on the season, marking the second straight campaign that he has reached that mark. Soto is also just 18 RBI away from his second consecutive season with 100 RBI. Prior to 2023, the slugger had just one 30-homer, 100-RBI campaign over his first five years in the majors.
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Yankees' Juan Soto: Homers, reaches four times
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Soto went 2-for-3 with a solo home run, a double and two walks in Sunday's win against the Blue Jays.
Soto took Genesis Cabrera deep in the seventh inning for his 28th home run of the season before belting a double off Blue Jays closer Chad Green in the eighth. The superstar outfielder reached base four times Sunday and has now reached base in all 15 games since the All-Star break, posting a dominant .393/.500/.820 slash line with 14 extra-base hits, 12 RBI and 18 runs scored during that stretch.
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Yankees' Juan Soto: Knocks in three runs Monday
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Soto went 3-for-5 with two doubles, two runs and three RBI in Monday's 14-4 thrashing of Philadelphia.
Though Soto didn't get in on the six homers New York racked up in the victory, he collected the team's only two doubles and was one of three Yankees with three RBI. The slugger has at least three hits on 11 occasions this season and has knocked in at least three runs 12 times. Soto has tallied 10 multi-hit performances over his past 15 games and is slashing .406/.479/.859 with six home runs, 14 RBI, 16 runs and a stolen base over that span.
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Yankees' Juan Soto: Goes yard in slugfest
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Soto went 2-for-5 with a two-run home run, a walk and an additional run scored in Saturday's 11-8 extra-inning win over the Red Sox.
Soto got the fireworks started in the first inning, hitting the first of three homers for the Yankees in the contest. The outfielder has gone 15-for-34 (.441) with four homers and eight RBI over eight games since the All-Star break. That's elevated his already impressive season slash line to .309/.433/.598 with 27 homers, 74 RBI, 86 runs scored and five stolen bases through 102 contests.
