The Red Sox are clearly interested in obtaining Juan Soto’s services, but they’ll have to shell out an insane amount of money to do so.

We’re talking historic numbers, folks.

ESPN’s Jeff Passan and Buster Olney discussed the slugger’s free agency on Thursday, and both came to the conclusion that he could break the record for the largest total money given in a single contract.

“It’s a perfect storm of bidding, and through the use of deferrals, it does not seem out of the realm of possibility that the broad strokes of his deal could be something in the range of $750 million over 15 years,” Olney said.

“It’s an enormous number,” Passan concurred. “It could include deferred money, but less than a year after Shohei Ohtani signed a $700 million contract that shattered the previous record by nearly $275 million, Soto might exceed it.”

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Soto, of course, reportedly has already received offers of $600 million or more from the Red Sox, New York Mets and New York Yankees, among others. Ohtani’s deal included a present-day value of roughly $460 million, with the remaining money deferred for more than a decade.

Soto will likely take his salary in a more traditional sense, which could mean an average annual salary of roughly $50-$60 million.

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Boston isn’t believed to be among the teams already eliminated from contention, but it very well could if that number isn’t raised in a follow-up meeting that is expected to take place over the next few days.

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