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The Nationals’ Epic Juan Soto Haul Keeps Getting Better

May 10, 2025
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The 2022 Nationals found themselves at a crossroads. Washington had sold at the prior year’s trade deadline, shipping Max Scherzer and Trea Turner to the Dodgers, sending Kyle Schwarber to the Red Sox, dealing Daniel Hudson to the Padres and trading Jon Lester to the Cardinals. The organization’s steadfast hope had been that even while rebuilding, Juan Soto would be at the heart of those efforts to build back up. Longtime general manager Mike Rizzo acknowledged as much in June, plainly stating on the record that he had no intention of trading Soto.

The Nats offered Soto an extension reportedly worth $440MM in guaranteed money. It would’ve been the largest deal in MLB history at the time. Only after Soto turned that offer down — drawing plenty of criticism for doing so — did Washington begin to seriously explore the possibility of trading him. Moving the game’s best young hitter when he had two and a half seasons of club control remaining was no small undertaking. It’d require a seismic haul of young talent — the type of prospect package that several interested parties simply didn’t have the inventory to assemble. Most other clubs simply couldn’t stomach the asking price.

A limited market of suitors for Soto emerged. To no one’s surprise, the hyper-aggressive Padres entered the bidding and made a strong push. San Diego president of baseball operations A.J. Preller throws his hat in the ring when nearly any star-caliber player is available. From the moment Soto hit the market, the Padres — then armed with one of baseball’s best farm systems — were among the most logical landing spots.

San Diego indeed wound up reeling in their big fish, and it took the type of trade haul we might not see again for years to come. Soto and Josh Bell went from the Nats to the Padres in exchange for shortstop CJ Abrams, left-hander MacKenzie Gore, outfielder James Wood, outfielder Robert Hassell III and right-hander Jarlin Susana. The Padres also sent first baseman Luke Voit to the Nats as something of a financial counterweight, and in a separate deal they shipped Eric Hosmer — who’d invoked his no-trade rights to block his inclusion in the Soto trade — to the Red Sox.

It was a jaw-dropping haul. Abrams, Gore and Hassell had all been top-10 draft picks within the past five seasons. Abrams was a consensus top-10 prospect in the sport at the time. Gore had struggled through some mechanical issues in the upper minors but was only a few years removed from being one of the consensus top pitching prospects in the game. Wood was a 19-year-old who was just a year removed from being a second-round pick, and his stock was firmly on the rise at the time of the swap as he ripped through A-ball. Hassell entered the 2022 season as a top-40 prospect in the game. Susana was only 18 at the time of the trade and was in his first season of pro ball after signing out of his native Dominican Republic; Baseball America likened his upside to that of a high schooler who might go in the first round of the MLB draft.

While not every blockbuster trade pans out — Washington hasn’t gotten a ton of value from that Scherzer/Turner stunner, for instance — the Soto trade has produced a bumper crop that seems likely to form the nucleus of the next contending Nationals club.

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