Nationals trade Juan Soto to Padres in blockbuster deadline deal

03.08.2022 - 00:27 foxnews.com

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. The Washington Nationals traded two-time All-Star Juan Soto to the San Diego Padres on Tuesday, two weeks after Soto turned down a 15-year, $440 million contract from the organization.

In the deal, the Nationals will also send first baseman Josh Bell to San Diego. Juan Soto #22 of the Washington Nationals bats during the game between the St.

Louis Cardinals and the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park on Sunday, July 31, 2022 in Washington, District of Columbia. (Photo by Rob Tringali/MLB Photos via Getty Images) The Nationals will receive shortstop C.J.

Abrams, left-handed pitcher MacKenzie Gore, and prospects Robert Hassell III, James Wood, and Jarlin Susana. San Diego will also send first baseman/designated hitter Luke Voit to Washington in the deal. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Both teams announced the trade later Tuesday afternoon.

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SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Padres have replaced a planned Fernando Tatis Jr. bobblehead night with a Juan Soto T-shirt giveaway after the superstar shortstop was banned 80 games Friday following a positive test for a performance-enhancing drug.

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BLEARY-EYED AND SLEEP-DEPRIVED, their five-o'clock shadows looking more like 10, A.J. Preller and Mike Rizzo lurched into their offices on opposite coasts early Tuesday morning ready to do the unthinkable. Pulling off the biggest trade in the century-and-a-half-long history of Major League Baseball had taken the two general managers to the brink of exhaustion — and done the same to Juan Soto, the superstar outfielder who in a few hours would be dealt by Rizzo's Washington Nationals to Preller's San Diego Padres. For a deal so complicated, so consequential, so tectonic, though, an unfamiliar feeling that morning overwhelmed the principals of such a massive endeavor: peace.

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ON AUG. 1, the San Diego Padres were 58-46. They had the fifth-best record in the National League but were 12 games behind the Los Angeles Dodgers, the team they've attempted to catch up to for decades.

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