Access the Mets beat like never before Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Mike Puma about the inside buzz on the Mets from spring training Try it free Mets president David Stearns was forecasting the Juan Soto signing long before the deal went through in December.

Mets slugger Juan Soto has many accomplishments in his seven-year career. Already the owner of the richest contract in American professional sports (15 years, $765 million), Soto also has five Silver Sluggers, four All-Star nods and a World Series ring.

Things happen when they have to happen, and the timing is perfect, so in baseball nothing is a coincidence, because each of the movements of the teams brings a lot of prior study,