After what seemed like eons of waiting, the news finally broke on Sunday night: Juan Soto was joining the Mets on the richest deal in the history of Major League Baseball.
The superstar slugger trading The Bronx for Queens and joining the Mets on a 15-year, $765 million contract had the world of baseball agog.
And, for the Yankees, it was a night of disappointment as they must begin to rebound and re-tool their roster after losing last offseason’s big acquisition that led them to the World Series at the start of MLB Winter Meetings in Dallas.
“It is the biggest and most important transaction the Mets have ever made,” SNY Mets play-by-play broadcaster Gary Cohen said.
And Soto, the 26-year-old slugger coming off a career season, was, expectedly in a celebratory mood.
Knicks forward Josh Hart, a Yankees fan, had just one word to say about the news.