With Soto Gone, Yankees Must Build a Team for 2025

The Yankees chose to not top the Met's insanely high contract offer to Juan Soto of 15-year $765 million dollars, with escalators that can make the contract worth over 800 million. Instead, some feel the Yankees are choosing mediocrity; but are they really? The Yankees have a chance to make things right with the fan base by adding four players at a cheaper long-term price than it costs for the Mets to get just one player in Soto. Financial flexibility matters, and in this case, flexibility gives Brian Cashman and the crew the ability to fill out the rest of the team's glaring holes. Who are those three players? Here is the pool to choose from: Alex Bregman, Pete Alonso, Christian Walker, Teoscar Hernandez, Anthony Santander, Corbin Burnes, and Max Fried are all names that the Yankees are expected to be in on and MUST get. This list does not include bullpen arms, something the team must upgrade regardless of who they sign and at what cost. The Yankees can roll out a better lineup this opening day, something that looks like this: SS Anthony Volpe, CF Aaron Judge, RF Anthony Santander OR Teoscar Hernandez, 1B Pete Alonso, LF Jasson Dominguez, DH Giancarlo Stanton, 3B Jazz Chisholm, 2B Caleb Durbin, and C Austin Wells. While also adding an elite starter like Corbin Burnes or Max Fried. This would certainly make the Yankees better and much deeper than they were last year, and honestly better than they could have been with Soto. At least one should think. So while yes, it is frustrating to see a player the caliber of Juan Soto, whom the Yankees gave up plenty of resources for to bring in town a year ago, leave for the crosstown rivals, it's not over. Unlike Nick Turturro and other Yankees fans on social media, chill out. The World Series isn't won in December.