Mets exec admits big Juan Soto interest: We’re going ‘full blast’ after him

Carlos Beltran said this week that the Mets are going to do everything they can to sign free agent slugger Juan Soto.
The assistant to the president of baseball operations spoke to Joseph Reboyras of Primera Hora, a newspaper in Puerto Rico, about the team’s pursuit of Soto while at a recent charity pickleball event.
“The Mets want to improve the team and there is no doubt that they will go after free agents, especially Juan Soto, who everybody wants,” he said. “The Mets will go full blast for him.”
Mets owner Steve Cohen is meeting with Soto and his agent, Scott Boras, in California this week.
“The Mets’ owner is one of the wealthiest in the game and wants to win,” Beltran said. “When he tells the press that he wants to win, he doesn’t say it to rile up fans. It’s personal for him and I got to see that being with the team this year.”
ESPN reported on Monday that the Blue Jays are meeting with Soto this week. The Yankees are also among the several teams interested in the four-time All-Star. Yankees manager Aaron Boone told reporters on Monday that they have a meeting set up with Soto for this month.
Beltran joined the Mets front office before the 2023 season. He played seven seasons with the Mets from 2005-2011 , hitting .280 with a 129 OPS+, 149 home runs and 100 stolen bases while earning four All-Star nods. He was hired as the Mets’ manager entering the 2020 season but lasted just three months before he was fired after being named in MLB’s investigation into the Houston Astros’ 2017 sign-stealing scandal.
(NJ Advance Media’s Manny Gomez contributed to this report.)
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