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Podcast: Sox Machine
Episode: 2024 Winter Meetings Day 1 Recap: Dick Allen is a Hall of Famer and Juan Soto signs with the Mets
Description: Recording Date: 12/8/2024Rundown
[Intro] 2024 Winter Meetings generating more news on Day 1 than all of 2023 Winter Meetings
[3:00] Dick Allen makes the Hall of Fame, finally.
[9:50] According to ESPN's Jeff Passan, Juan Soto is signing with the New York Mets for a deal that could pay him more than $800 million over the contract's lifetime. Why this type of deal raises questions about sustainability in rising free agent contracts, and how disappointing it is to be a White Sox fan knowing ownership would never make the necessary deals to land players like Soto.
[28:04] Latest Garrett Crochet gossip has the...