It is incredibly unreasonable to blame the Yankees security guard for Juan Soto’s defection.
The public is shocked and demands explanations and diagnoses when something as shocking as Juan Soto earning $765 million with the Mets instead of $760 million with the Yankees happens (yeah, we know, the escalators…).
Nowadays, everyone is a detective. The natural urge to reveal the collapsing reality of the institutions we cherish has been thrust to the fore. The Yankees certainly didn’t lose this game to a quadrillionaire hedge fund manager who committed financial crimes. He is undoubtedly heroic, but they are completely corrupt.
Blood was discovered on the stairs leading to one of Yankee Stadium’s restricted areas on Monday by spectators searching for it. It was revealed that Soto was furious when a security agent denied his family access to a particular area in April or May of last year.
The same security guy then forced his private chef and driver to wait in the rain. After the World Series, Jon Heyman reportedly questioned Soto about the incident. Thus, Steve Cohen and his spouse turned the Mets’ regard for families into a marketing point.
It’s really ruthless if Cohen did, in fact, recognise one of Soto’s weaknesses and sell him on a developing familial dynamic. It’s the kind of strategy that most likely works in Cohen’s daily life and obviously worked once more in this specific case.
However, until a few hours prior to his sudden departure, the Yankees had the lead for Soto. They almost got into a heated argument. According to reports, David Stearns thought the Mets were doomed when he left a meeting last week. Soto seems ready to make a comeback despite the security guard/personal chef fiasco. In the last few hours of the hunt, something unexpected occurred that completely altered Soto’s perspective.
“Money” was that thing. An enormous amount of money.
Due to a huge salary (and one rogue security guard), Juan Soto departed the Yankees for the Mets.
Let’s set the record straight. Aaron Boone has never run a better clubhouse than this Yankees squad, while the team’s second-best player spent the entire season sulking over an overbearing security guard, while the team’s emotional players were left sobbing and stone-faced after the World Series? I suppose Aaron Boone’s best clubhouse has low expectations!
In the absence of a well-thought-out backup plan, irate Yankee supporters will spend the 2025 season frantically looking for an hourly worker who, if this narrative is accurate, would have preferred that his story be forgotten. It might have been, too. We didn’t need to add “Oh, yeah, and Soto hated this singular stadium worker!” to the list because the $55 million at age 41 was a compelling enough story.
