It's not that the Cubs couldn't sign Juan Soto, they just didn't want to

Sure, Jed.

I hate to be the one to break it to you, but Juan Soto didn’t sign with the Cubs. Instead of accepting the nothing that the Cubs offered him, he agreed to settle for just 15 years and $765 million from the New York Mets. Tough call for Juan, I know.

He can opt out of his deal in five years and just do this all over again if he wants, or he can just sit around and collect enormous checks until 2040.

It was no shock that the Cubs didn’t try to sign Soto. He’s too pricey and frankly, too good for them to try to sign. Why add a soon to be 26 year old on track to be a first ballot Hall of Famer when you can pay Ian Happ 7.8% of that deal to “win” three Gold Gloves?

If you thought Jed Hoyer couldn’t find a way to be insulting about this, well, you didn’t catch his lounge act in Dallas on Monday.

“There is nothing that precludes us from being involved in those players. We did, organizationally, decide not to pursue that one. It doesn’t mean in the future that we won’t, but that was one we didn’t.

Oh, fuck off.