{"id":9674,"date":"2024-11-14T02:05:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T02:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotnews.azontree.com\/?p=9674"},"modified":"2024-11-14T02:05:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T02:05:25","slug":"report-old-juan-soto-interview-pours-gasoline-on-red-sox-free-agency-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotnews.azontree.com\/?p=9674","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Old Juan Soto interview pours gasoline on Red Sox free agency dream"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Juan Soto is the dream for the Red Sox offseason and the free agent’s past gives some hope.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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New York Yankees OF Juan Soto v Boston Red Sox \/ Brian Fluharty\/GettyImages<\/div>\n
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As the\u00a0Boston Red Sox\u00a0front office continues to send out signals that this will be a busy and aggressive offseason to vault the franchise into contention, we know the refrain of this team’s needs. They need starting pitching, they need bullpen help, they need a right-handed bat (or two). And yet, the white whale of free agency remains the same for the Red Sox as any other big-market team:\u00a0Juan Soto.<\/p>\n

Along with the incumbent Yankees, deep-pocketed Mets and now the sleeper Blue Jays, there has been a consistent drumbeat from several MLB insiders, including\u00a0ESPN’s Jeff Passan\u00a0and the\u00a0New York Post’s Jon Heyman, that the Red Sox will be in on Soto.<\/p>\n

There is reason for Red Sox fan to approach that connection with trepidation. The scars for anyone who believed the “full-throttle” message of last offseason are still fresh. And even though Craig Breslow has taken over for Chaim Bloom, it’s been many years since the Boston front office has been aggressive on the free agency and trade markets. So that turning on a dime to pay Juan Soto a $600-700 million contract is something that needs to be believed.<\/p>\n

Despite all of that, there are reasons to be optimistic. That might actually start with an old interview with Soto that is impossible not to consider in this current free agency context.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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Juan Soto called Red Sox his favorite team in old interview, adding fuel to offseason fire<\/h2>\n

During an interview with ElPadiTV from 2021, Soto called the Red Sox his favorite ballclub, growing up watching and idolizing Dominican legends that helped lead to Boston’s 2004 and 2007 World Series victories.<\/p>\n

“Since I was a child, my favorite MLB team was always Boston because of the Dominicans who played with them: Manny Ramirez, David Ortiz and Pedro [Martinez]. The Red Sox have always been my favorite team.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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