La Velle E. Neal III: What does Juan Soto’s contract say about the future of baseball?
Baseball scribes assembled in Dallas for the 2000 winter meetings, wondering who was going to hook the big fish of the free agent market that year — shortstop Alex Rodriguez. We found out on Dec. 11 — 24 years ago Wednesday — that A-Rod was headed to the Texas Rangers for 10 years and a whopping $252 million dollars,