{"id":14457,"date":"2022-08-02T17:32:59","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T17:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/san-diego-padres-finalize-deal-to-acquire-juan-soto-from-washington-nationals\/"},"modified":"2022-08-02T17:32:59","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T17:32:59","slug":"san-diego-padres-finalize-deal-to-acquire-juan-soto-from-washington-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=14457","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Padres finalize deal to acquire Juan Soto from Washington Nationals &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tAugust 2, 2022<\/p>\n<p>Published: August 2, 2022<\/p>\n<p>Updated: 9:50 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-meta entry-author multiple-bylines gtx-custom-author-data\">\n            <span class=\"by\"\/><\/p>\n<p>            KUSI newsroom        <\/p>\n<p>SAN DIEGO (KUSI) &#8211; After weeks of trade rumors, the San Diego Padres on Tuesday morning finalized a deal to acquire star shortstop Juan Soto from the Washington Nationals.<\/p>\n<p>The Padres Package Deal: Pitcher McKenzie Gore, SS CJ Abrams, OF Robert Hassell III, Pitcher James Wood, Pitcher Jarlin Susana and 1B Eric Hosmer (pending no-trade clause) for Juan Soto and Josh Bell.<\/p>\n<p>Juan Soto, 23, nicknamed &#8220;The Childish Bambino,&#8221; is a Dominican professional baseball left fielder who became a free agent in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/dodgers\/story\/2022-07-25\/juan-soto-trade-value-mlb-dodgers-nationals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Times<\/a> reported, &#8220;Arguably the most valuable asset available in a midseason trade in modern major league baseball history. The outfielder is already regarded as one of the best hitters, if not the best, in the majors with only 23 years old.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of the 2022 season, Soto turned down a record 15-year, $440 million contract offer to stay with the Nationals.  This deal would have made him the 20th highest paid player in annual value.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN&#8217;s Jeff Passan tweeted: &#8220;One of the biggest deals in baseball history has gone down, sending the 23-year-old to SD, where he&#8217;ll team up with Fernando Tatis Jr. and Manny Machado.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>List of MLB career achievements:<\/p>\n<p>2 \u00d7 All-Star (2021, 2022) World Series Champion (2019) 2 \u00d7 All-MLB First Team (2020, 2021) All-MLB Second Team (2019) 2 \u00d7 Silver Slugger Award (2020, 2021) Champion of Home Run Derby (2022) NL Batting Champion (2020)<\/p>\n<p>His career stats:<\/p>\n<table class=\"vk_tbl Uekwlc\" style=\"height: 48px;\" width=\"588\">\n<tr>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The San Diego Padres are finalizing a deal to acquire superstar shortstop Juan Soto from Washington, sources tell ESPN. <\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest deals in baseball history is coming to an end, sending the 23-year-old to SD, where he will team up with Fernando Tatis Jr.  and Manny Machado.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffPassan\/status\/1554494250280263682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kusi.com\/breaking-news-san-diego-padres-finalize-a-deal-to-acquire-juan-soto-from-washington-nationals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 2, 2022 Published: August 2, 2022 Updated: 9:50 AM KUSI newsroom SAN DIEGO (KUSI) &#8211; After weeks of trade rumors, the San Diego Padres on Tuesday morning finalized a deal to acquire star shortstop Juan Soto from the Washington Nationals. The Padres Package Deal: Pitcher McKenzie Gore, SS CJ Abrams, OF Robert Hassell III, Pitcher James Wood, Pitcher Jarlin Susana and 1B Eric Hosmer (pending no-trade clause) for Juan Soto and Josh Bell. Juan Soto, 23, nicknamed &#8220;The Childish Bambino,&#8221; is a Dominican professional baseball left fielder who became a free agent in 2015. The Los Angeles Times reported,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}