Juan Soto receives a luxury suite and up to 4 premium tickets
Juan Soto gets free use of a luxury suite and up to four premium tickets behind home plate at Citi Field.
DALLAS — Dominican Juan Soto gets free use of a luxury suite and up to four premium tickets behind home plate at Citi Field for New York Mets regular-season and postseason games as part of his record $765 million contract of dollars and 15 years, which was finalized on Wednesday.
The Mets They also agreed to provide personal team security for the All-Star outfielder and his family at the team’s expense for all spring training and regular-season games, both home and away, according to details of the agreement obtained by The Associated Press. Major League Baseball teams generally provide security for players’ families in stadium seating areas.
New York He also agreed to help Soto’s family with travel arrangements during the season, guaranteed that the Dominican will have uniform number 22 and included eight types of award bonuses.
The suite of Soto will be valued at the current prices of the Metspresumably for tax purposes, and after 2025, you can modify or give up your suite selection each January 15 for the following season. You can request premium tickets, to be used by family members, no later than 72 hours before the scheduled game time.
The New York Yankees refused to offer Soto a free suite.
“Some high-level players that make us a lot of money, if they want suites they buy them…whether it’s CC Sabathia, whether it’s Aaron Judge, whether it’s Gerrit Cole, whether it’s any of these guys,” general manager Brian Cashman said. “We have gone through a process in previous negotiations where requests could have occurred and this is what we did and we are going to honor those agreements, so there are no regrets there.”
Cashman said the Yankees have a shared suite for players’ families and a family room with babysitting services.
He has a full no-trade clause and gets a hotel suite on away trips.
Soto he would receive a $500,000 bonus for winning his first MVP award and $1 million for each additional MVP award. He would win $350,000 for finishing second in the voting and $150,000 for finishing between third and fifth. He was third in American League voting this year.
He would pocket $100,000 for each selection to the All-Star Game and, if he won the Gold Glove, $350,000 for the World Series MVP and $150,000 for the League Championship Series MVP.
Soto He would receive $100,000 for selection to the All-MLB first or second team, $150,000 for the Silver Slugger and $100,000 for the Hank Aaron Award.
Prize bonuses must be paid by January 31 following the season in which the bonus was earned.
He has a full no-trade clause and gets a hotel suite on away trips.
