{"id":19988,"date":"2022-07-20T08:14:39","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T08:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/nationals-refused-to-charter-juan-solo-flight-to-home-run-derby\/"},"modified":"2022-07-20T08:14:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T08:14:39","slug":"nationals-refused-to-charter-juan-solo-flight-to-home-run-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/nationals-refused-to-charter-juan-solo-flight-to-home-run-derby\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals refused to charter Juan Solo flight to Home Run Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em__fp gnt_em_vp__tp gnt_em__el\" aria-label=\"Video - Will the Nationals trade Juan Soto before the MLB trade deadline?\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The contentious relationship between Juan Soto and the Washington Nationals continues to sour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Less than 24-hours before Soto hoisted the 2022 Home Run Derby trophy at Dodger Stadium on Monday night, the 23-year-old outfielder was waiting in an airport for a commercial flight, all because the Nationals refused to charter a flight for Soto to Los Angeles, days after he rejected a record 15-year, $440 million contract extension.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Soto&#8217;s agent, Scott Boras, confirmed to USA TODAY Sports&#8217; Bob Nightengale that Soto arrived in Los Angeles early Monday morning following the Nationals&#8217; game against the Atlanta Braves in Washington, DC on Sunday.  The Braves chartered a plane to Los Angeles for their players.  The Nationals did not. <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;The Atlanta Braves arrived (in Los Angeles) five hours earlier than Juan Soto did,&#8221; Boras told <em>Sports Illustrated<\/em>.  &#8220;You know why? Because their team chartered a plane. Juan Soto had to fly on a commercial flight and wait in an airport for two hours and get here at 1:30 in the morning and have to compete in the Home Run Derby. And that&#8217;s something that Major League Baseball did not take care of and that&#8217;s something that the Washington Nationals did not take care of.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_img\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong>MLB HOME RUN DERBY: <\/strong>Nationals&#8217; Juan Soto beats out phenom Julio Rodriguez<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong>JUAN SOTO:<\/strong> All-Star outfielder rejects record $440 million offer from Nationals<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The traveling delay didn&#8217;t appear to have an effect on Soto.  He went on to win the 2022 Home Run Derby, topping 21-year-old Seattle Mariners phenom Julio Rodriguez in the final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">But much of the night&#8217;s attention focused on Soto&#8217;s future after the Nationals expressed a willingness to trade him after the outfielder rejected their contract extension.<\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Soto made it clear that he was angry and frustrated at the Nationals&#8217; decision to leak his contract negotiations, while he openly wonders why they had an about-face after saying he wouldn&#8217;t be traded a month ago. <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cA couple weeks ago they were saying they will never trade me,\u201d Soto said. \u201cAnd now all these things come out. It feels really uncomfortable. You don&#8217;t know what to trust.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong>MORE: <\/strong>After rejecting $440 million, Juan Soto&#8217;s ($500M?) future is the talk of MLB All-Star Game<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Oakland Athletics&#8217; All-Star pitcher Paul Blackburn found himself in a similar situation.  He planned to fly commercial to Los Angeles following the Athletics&#8217; game against the Astros in Houston on Sunday.  But the Astros offered Blackburn a ride. <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;It was fun. I felt like they made me feel very welcomed and comfortable,&#8221; Blackburn said in a video shared on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkBermanFox26\/status\/1549205357720772608\" target=\"_blank\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">twitter<\/a> by Fox&#8217;s Mark Berman.  &#8220;We had some good conversations, some good laughs. It was fun. It was a good time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_tw\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-method=\"loadTwitter\" data-v-id=\"1549205357720772608\" aria-label=\"Twitter Embed\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Blackburn continued: &#8220;It&#8217;s awesome. It just kind of shows that, within baseball, it&#8217;s kind of like a brotherhood. Everyone respects each other and tries to help each other out. I&#8217;m greatly appreciative for their organization and letting me tag along over here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em>Contributing: Bob Nightengale from Los Angeles<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"gnt_em_gl_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/07\/19\/USAT\/0933a7c2-b6dd-415b-8214-86ed2645f18b-USATSI_18715377.jpg?crop=4567,2569,x0,y2740&amp;width=660&amp;height=372&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" data-gl-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/07\/19\/USAT\/0933a7c2-b6dd-415b-8214-86ed2645f18b-USATSI_18715377.jpg?crop=4567,2569,x0,y2740&amp;width=1320&amp;height=744&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp 2x\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The contentious relationship between Juan Soto and the Washington Nationals continues to sour. Less than 24-hours before Soto hoisted the 2022 Home Run Derby trophy at Dodger Stadium on Monday night, the 23-year-old outfielder was waiting in an airport for a commercial flight, all because the Nationals refused to charter a flight for Soto to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/nationals-refused-to-charter-juan-solo-flight-to-home-run-derby\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nationals refused to charter Juan Solo flight to Home Run Derby<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20181,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/soto-flies-commercial-to-hr-derby-after-nationals-refuse-to-charter-flight\/","url_meta":{"origin":19988,"position":0},"title":"Soto Flies Commercial to HR Derby After Nationals Refuse to Charter Flight","date":"July 20, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Hours before Juan Soto won the 2022 Home Run Derby in Los Angeles on Monday night, he traveled from Atlanta to California on a commercial flight.the nationals outfielder's agent Scott Boras told Sports Illustrated's Stephanie Apstein that the team didn't charter a flight for Soto to the All-Star week after\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":19501,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/washington-nationals-didnt-charter-flight-for-juan-soto\/","url_meta":{"origin":19988,"position":1},"title":"Washington Nationals didn&#8217;t charter flight for Juan Soto","date":"July 19, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The Juan Soto saga took another weird turn Monday night.The current-but-possibly-on-the-trade-block outfielder for the Washington Nationals arrived less than 24 hours before the Home Run Derby after Soto flew commercially to Los Angeles following the team's series against the Atlanta Braves in DC That drew the ire of Soto's agent,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":22903,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/juan-soto-retweets-then-deletes-derek-jeter-loyalty-quote\/","url_meta":{"origin":19988,"position":2},"title":"Juan Soto retweets, then deletes, Derek Jeter &#8216;loyalty&#8217; quote","date":"July 23, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"As trade rumors continue to swirl over Juan Soto, the Nationals superstar is once again making his feelings known on the matter \u2013 momentarily, that is. 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