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Juan Soto has twice been traded for huge packages and signed the largest contract in MLB history. It speaks to his brilliance as a hitter, one of the best to this point of a career in history.
It also speaks that no one or even two players were going to be able to do enough in his wake to make the Yankees offense as good, much less better, than last season.
It was going to take a village.
The Yankees have received a village.