In this first season with the New York Mets, the presence of Juan Soto is beginning to bear fruit, but also to consolidate the dream of a Dominican boy who did not believe in himself, and who thanks to his representative was able to reach the most unthinkable glory in the best baseball in the world.
A promise that seemed crazy
Just now when with each outing Soto seeks to please and convince locals and strangers that his multimillion-dollar contract is not a coincidence, the player himself remembers his days as a youth in his native Quisqueya, when he dreamed not of reaching the Major Leagues, but of dedicating himself at least to baseball and living from it, because talent was what he had to spare.
If there is one person who was convinced of this from minute one, it is agent Scott Boras, who once told Soto and his family that he would get the young baseball player a $100 million contract. Not only did he do that, but he also hit it out of the park with the most lucrative deal in the history of professional sports.
Arrival in MLB, World Series and multi-million dollar contract
First it was the Washington Nationals, with whom Soto won his first Fall Classic title, then it was the New York Yankees and finally, he made Juan jump from the Bronx to Queens for an impressive $765 million and 15-year contract. Scott Boras had kept his word, pledged with a gesture that neither Soto nor his family wanted to believe at first, his hand extended, open, one hundred million for each finger: “This is what you’re worth, Juan.”
That episode was followed by many meetings, a lot of work on the young ballplayer’s professional self-esteem, with only one vision in mind: to make his prediction a reality, which today is a reality in professional baseball in the United States, and in this first season with the Queens franchise, it is more than underway, although there is still much to prove and convince the incredulous that such value is not the product of marketing, but of forcefulness on the field, that which not only gives millions, but is consolidated in championships.
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