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Mikaela Shiffrin's bid for her record-setting 100th World Cup win came to an unexpected stop in Vermont. The prominent skier crashed during a giant slalom event, despite securing the fastest first-run time. In a dramatic twist, Shiffrin lost control near the finish line, impacting the safety netting after catching an edge. She was promptly attended to and later taken to a medical facility for assessment. A resilient Shiffrin announced minor injuries and expressed gratitude for the support. However, she confirmed she would sit out the next slalom event. Meanwhile, Sara Hector clinched victory following Shiffrin's crash. (With inputs from agencies.)

Early Black Friday Deals on Amazon Devices, Even Kindles (2024)CALGARY - Former NHL star Joe Thornton and Calgary Flames front office executive Brad Pascall are heading the management team for Canada’s Spengler Cup squad for a second straight year. Hockey Canada announced its 2024 Spengler Cup management group Tuesday, with Thornton and Pascall working as co-GMs and Hnat Domenichelli joining them as an assistant. Thornton made his international management debut at last year’s Spengler Cup, when Canada lost 4-3 to Czech squad HC Dynamo Pardubice in the semifinals. He ended his 25-year professional playing career after the 2021-22 NHL season and finished with 1,539 points in 1,714 games with Boston, San Jose, Toronto and Florida. His international career includes gold with Canada at the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver and a Spengler Cup title in 2004 while playing for the tournament host team, Switzerland’s HC Davos. Pascall is currently in his 11th season as assistant general manager of the Calgary Flames, and his second as vice-president of hockey operations. Domenichelli has served as general manager of HC Lugano in Switzerland since 2019. As a player, he had an 18-year professional career that included 922 games in the NHL, American Hockey League and Switzerland’s National League. The Spengler Cup runs Dec. 26-31 in Davos. The hosts are the defending champions. Canada and Davos are tied for the most Spengler Cup titles with 16, though Canada hasn’t won since 2019. The 2020 and 2021 tournaments were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 12, 2024.

BEIJING , Nov. 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- This is a report from China.org.cn. Is used cooking oil also clean energy? Which energy sources can make our world cleaner? What does the whole supply chain look like? Our host Jason had an eye-opening day at the 2nd China International Supply Chain Expo (CISCE). Jason didn't expect to find used cooking oil at the clean energy section of CISCE. Beijing Haixin Energy Technology can transform used cooking oil into Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO). Mixed with diesel, it can be used by cars, ships and planes. The first test point is in Beijing's Haidian district, creating a closed-loop system from collection to reuse. SINOPEC showed the large-capacity refueling dual-pressure liquid-driven hydrogen compressor, the largest of its kind in China . It'll power SINOPEC's new hydrogen station in Cangzhou, fueling over 100 heavy trucks. This saves over 5,000 tons of carbon emissions per year, equivalent to planting 500 hectares of trees, about the size of 700 soccer fields! And SINOPEC is building a complete hydrogen network from production to fueling stations. China National Offshore Oil Corporation(CNOOC)LNG-tanks store liquified natural gas (LNG). The gas is kept super cold, at minus 162 degrees. That extreme cold actually is very useful. It can be used for fish farms, cold storage warehouses, and even indoor snow parks. It is like a free air conditioning. Dongfang Turbine Co., Ltd. showed China's first self-developed F-class 50 MW heavy-duty gas turbine. It generates 50,000 kWh of electricity per hour, enough to supply 7,000 homes for a day. It cuts carbon dioxide emissions by 500,000 tons per year, equal to the amount of the gas absorbed by 4.5 million trees yearly. The turbine has over 20,000 parts. The company cooperated with universities, research institutions and more than 300 companies, 39 of them are specialized high-tech firms. Here you can see the upstream, midstream and downstream companies. In CISCE, this open platform, the global supply chain becomes much smoother. http://www.china.org.cn/business/2024-11/30/content_117578624.htm Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cf9dSj0eRgMan City crisis deepens with loss to Juventus in Champions League as Barcelona and Arsenal win

Team News: Tottenham Hotspur vs. Roma injury, suspension list, predicted XIsNoneThe world according to Jim: • As we approach the latest edition of USC vs. UCLA – in other words, a 5-5 team against a 4-6 team, their game Saturday at the Rose Bowl shunted to a 7:30 Pacific time slot so people in the Eastern half of the country who don’t have a bet on the game need not bother – the question must be asked: Are there people in those athletic departments who have buyers’ remorse over the move to the Big Ten? And will that remorse only increase as the travel horror stories involving non-football programs’ conference travel pile up? ... • Here’s a reminder of the reason for this displacement, as well as the only thing that seemingly makes it make sense: The L.A. schools are getting full shares of the Big Ten media pie, somewhere in the neighborhood of $60 million a year, as the first programs to jump the Pac-12 ship on the final day of June, 2022. Given the way former Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff subsequently botched the conference’s media rights negotiations, which began the mass exodus, the L.A. schools’ move in retrospect was understandable if regrettable. ... • Hey, it is more expensive to live in L.A., right? ... • Oregon and Washington, among the last to defect, get half shares for the balance of the Big Ten contract, which runs through the spring of 2030 (although Phil Knight’s largesse almost certainly helps offset the difference at Oregon). The teams that scattered to the Big XII and Atlantic Coast Conference similarly received reduced shares from their new conferences. Oregon State and Washington State have been living off the Pac-12’s surplus and a stopgap TV deal and teamed with Octagon this week in search of a new media rights agreement for the rebuilding conference. ... • On the football field, at least, it has been an unqualified triumph for Oregon, undefeated and currently at the top of the College Football Playoff pecking order. Washington is 6-5 overall and 4-4 in the Big Ten. The L.A. schools are reduced to playing for bowl scraps. And the idea that Washington, USC and UCLA are respectively eighth, 12th and 13th in their conference is its own special kind of culture shock. ... • We’ve had more than a year to get used to it, but I still miss the old Pac-12 and its regional rivalries. That’s not going to change for a good, long while. ... • Meanwhile, Ole Miss’ Lane Kiffin said the quiet part out loud the other day, as he is prone to do. His team’s on a heater – 8-2 overall, 4-2 in the SEC, No. 9 in the last College Football Playoff rankings and winner of three in a row, including a 28-10 thumping of then-No. 3 Georgia. Yet in an expanded SEC that – like the Big Ten – no longer has divisions and sends its first- and second-place teams to the conference championship game, Kiffin said he wanted no part of that 13th game and a potential third loss that would knock his team out of playoff contention. He indicated other SEC coaches had similar feelings. ... • In other words: The bloated nature of the current Power Four conferences – and, as former colleague Mark Whicker noted in his Substack column, the realization that contenders don’t all play each other because of that bloat – has already made the 12-team playoff unwieldy and borderline obsolete. Nice work, guys. ... • And let the empha$i$ on the bottom line, both among athletic programs and among those players getting NIL money, be one more reminder that the NCAA’s insistent reference to “student athletes,” parroted by its member schools, is as big a fallacy as ever and maybe more so. Reverse the order of that phrase and it’s closer to the truth. ... • The other aspect of what at first glance seems to be a diminished crosstown rivalry – at least until the game starts and the emotions on the field take over – is that one coach, UCLA’s DeShaun Foster, is digging out from the Chip Kelly era, and his team has already displayed progress this season. The other, USC’s Lincoln Riley, is drawing comparisons to predecessor Clay Helton among some alumni – and that’s not good. ... • The Rams will be honoring their 1999 team, which won the franchise’s first Super Bowl for St. Louis, at Sunday evening’s game against Philadelphia at SoFi Stadium. And if you are an L.A. Rams fan, all in on the team once again, do you really care about the ’99 champs, never mind willing to celebrate them? Or is there still a void between the team’s departure for St. Louis in 1995 and its return to Los Angeles in 2016? ( The Reddit conversation from this past May, “What Is Your Opinion of Georgia Frontiere,” indicates where longtime L.A. Rams fans stand on this.) ... • From the “things I wish I’d written” file, Washington Post columnist Sally Jenkins’ wonderful description of the monstrosity that was the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson “fight” a week ago: “Was Jake Paul’s not the most punchable face in the history of punched faces? It was a face with all the character and lived experience of a canned ham. It was the consummate face of an influencer, with all the smirky grifting in search of the lux life that term suggests. There wasn’t a hint of true toughness — much less truth — in it. Just blandness cloaked in a poseur-pharaoh’s beard and topped by some box-color bleached curls, and God did you ever want Mike Tyson to put his very real fist in it.” Priceless. ... • The ball from Freddie Freeman’s World Series Game 1 walkoff grand slam, grabbed by 10-year-old Zachary Ruderman of Venice – who was told he was leaving school early that Friday to go to a orthodontist’s appointment only to have his dad take him to Dodger Stadium instead – is going to be auctioned off by SCP Auctions from Dec. 4-14. It should fetch seven figures, easy, maybe even more than the $4.392 million top bid last month for Shohei Ohtani’s 50th home run (which is currently held up by a dispute over who actually had the right to auction it). ... • If I could afford to make the winning bid on Freeman’s ball – and if I actually could, you wouldn’t be reading this column – I’d lend it to the Dodgers to prominently display among their MVP and Cy Young and Silver Slugger trophies, with the stipulation that it would eventually go to the Hall of Fame. That’s where it belongs. Now if someone could just find the Kirk Gibson ball from 1988. ... jalexander@scng.com

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PUNE: The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is expected to delay the state-wide deworming campaign scheduled for December 4 due to shortage of albendazole tablets, officials said. The deworming campaign is slated to be conducted across 17 districts of Maharashtra on December 4 with a mop-up round scheduled on December 10. In Pune district, the district health officer and Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) have already received the stock of medicines for the campaign. However, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has not yet received the stock of medicines. A senior officer from the health department on condition of anonymity said, “The PMC and PCMC were supposed to receive the drug supply from Mumbai. However, samples of the tablets in Mumbai failed to meet the required standards as per the laboratory reports. This has caused a statewide shortage of medicines and priority will be given to areas with tribal populations if the medicine stock is made available.” As part of the campaign, around 4.50 lakh children aged one to 19 years in Pune city, 1.50 lakh children in Pune Rural, and 1.70 lakh children in Pimpri-Chinchwad will be administered albendazole tablets, said officials. Dr Nina Borade, health chief of the PMC, said, “We have not received any stock of medicines due to some quality issue with the medicines in Mumbai. The health department is trying to source medicines from Telangana. We hope that the medicines will be received at the earliest. In case of failure to get the medicines on time, we will be forced to postpone the campaign for Pune city. However, all other arrangements have been made for the campaign and the department is prepared for the drive.” Dr Laxman Gophane, health chief of the PCMC, said that earlier, they were asked to get medicines from Mumbai but later, the health department asked them to collect medicines from Buldhana. “We have an eligible population of 1.70 lakh children in the Pimpri-Chinchwad area. A stock of 1.90 lakh tablets has been received by us and the campaign in Pimpri-Chinchwad will be held as per schedule,” he said. Dr Nagnath Yempalay said that for Pune Rural, a stock of 1.60 lakh tablets has been received by them from Buldhana. Similar to the PCMC, they too were supposed to get the medicines from Mumbai but the health department later changed the source of supply. Teachers, Anganwadi workers and ASHA (Accredited Social Health Activists) workers were trained to administer the tablets to children. “Besides, ASHA workers and other health staff will create awareness and mobilise children to be dewormed on that day,” he said.General Motors has made a series of moves in recent months to quietly restructure its business to be as agile as possible going into a wildly uncertain 2025, and analysts said the market should be applauding it. "GM is adjusting to a new reality, and they're become a leaner and a meaner GM," Dan Ives, managing director at Wedbush Securities, told the Detroit Free Press on Wednesday. "I'd say they're quasi-restructuring, meaning they are putting good assets after good and eliminating the bad." GM's most recent change came Tuesday when the automaker announced it would walk away from the billions of dollars it invested in Cruise's robotaxi fleet development since 2016 to instead focus on putting autonomous driving technology on personal vehicles that GM can sell to the public. GM is the largest stakeholder in the self-driving technology company Cruise. “When I first saw the news, I thought, ‘Oh thank God! It’s the new GM,’ “ Mike Ward, managing director of research at Freedom Capital Markets, told the Free Press Wednesday. “The old GM would have been stubborn and kept throwing billions at it. GM can’t compete with Waymo. GM doesn’t need to be in the robotaxi business. This move shows capital discipline. What got GM into bankruptcy in 2008? Undisciplined capital allocation, plain and simple.” Ives agreed, saying it was smart to cut the cord on a program that won't deliver profits anytime soon, if ever. But, he said, "It's bad that they spent all that money and they didn't get anything." Holiday deals: Shop this season’s top products and sales curated by our editors. The Cruise decision is just the latest big move announced by GM. Earlier this month, the company said it will sell back its investment in a battery cell plant being built in Lansing, Michigan to its Ultium Cells joint venture partner LG Energy Solution. That's expected to deliver about $1 billion to GM's coffers. But then GM said it will record a total of nearly $5 billion in non-cash charges against its fourth-quarter net income. GM is in the midst of a massive restructuring of its operations in China that is funded by its partners there. When that's completed, GM expects to be profitable in the world's largest auto market again. In November, GM cut a total of about 1,000 salaried and hourly employees globally as part of the new salaried employee ranking system as well as the "normal course of business" to achieve better operating efficiency. GM said it will also stop using its Yuma Desert Proving Grounds in Arizona for hot-weather vehicle testing. In September, GM inked a deal with Hyundai Motor Co . to look into areas where the two automakers might collaborate in the future. GM admits to considering a change in tactics Not all is lost in GM's latest move with Cruise. Ives and Ward acknowledge that Cruise did bring GM access to technology that has helped improve safety features across its broader lineup and helped attract top software engineers to the automaker. Two high-level software executives left GM earlier this year. Morningstar Autos Analyst David Whiston said GM is restructuring its business model in a sense, but that's good, noting that "the word (restructuring) tends to be associated with companies in trouble and needing a lot of work. In this case GM is not in trouble, but they know they need to change a lot to remain competitive versus Tesla and the Chinese," which are dominating the electric vehicle market globally. The industry as a whole is adjusting to slower-than-expected adoption of EVs , with added uncertainty in the U.S. from President-elect Donald Trump's expected elimination of incentives for people to buy the cars. GM recalls: Over 132,000 Chevrolet, GMC trucks recalled over tailgate issue: See affected models GM's decision to put the brakes on Cruise's robotaxi business reiterated the automaker's disciplined spending philosophy, a message that CFO Paul Jacobson has drilled into Wall Street analysts since earlier this fall. At GM's Investor Day in October, he said the company expects the auto industry to sell about 16 million new vehicles for all of next year, which is "consistent with where we have seen it.” That would be either flat or slightly below where sales could end up this year, based on predictions. Jacobson said that before the election, however. With a new administration heading to the White House, uncertainty rules the day. Trump has talked of repealing parts of the Inflation Reduction Act, notably the $7,500 federal tax credit to consumers for the purchase of electric vehicles, which has helped GM and other carmakers sell EVs despite a lagging public-charger infrastructure. The industry also faces the possibility that Trump will follow through on his threat to raise tariffs on products imported from Mexico and Canada, where all three Detroit automakers have factories in Mexico and Canada. An increase in tariffs, which are the taxes imposed on products when they cross borders, could mean huge cost bumps to automakers. Amid all of this, Jacobson has said that at some point next year, GM's losses on its EVs would narrow by $2 billion to $4 billion. On Dec. 4, an analyst asked Jacobson at the UBS Global Industrials and Transportation Conference in Florida if that goal holds true even if Trump repeals the federal tax credit on EV purchases and rolls back other environmental regulations next year. “I won’t speculate on what policy is going to do, other than to just to say we’ve got to remain agile. We’ve done that for more than a century across 20 presidents," Jacobson said. "Things change. While there might be some changes that are pretty big shifts, we’ve always endeavored to say we want the products to sell themselves." GM will remain focused on the customer, Jacobson said, but he added, "it might mean we have to change tactics a little bit.” GM is prepared to shift its all-electric strategy , including its plan to bring plug-in hybrid technology to certain models in North America in 2027, if the Trump administration eases environmental regulations on new vehicles, he said. Barra pushes back as she considers the future Jacobson's comments, combined with GM's recent moves, provide a glimpse into the company's view of the future, experts said. "GM is thinking more about the long term than about 2025, which probably is going to be a difficult year," said Erik Gordon, business professor at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business. "GM reconsidered what had been key pieces of its business plans — China and EVs and AVs — and now thinks they are less important, are drags on profits, and consume a lot of cash." GM committed to invest some $35 billion toward EV and AV development through 2025. Gordon noted that many investors thought the China market was a "crucial future market." "Analysts said that a car company that fell behind in EVs or AVs was doomed," Gordon added. "GM did what it was pushed to do. Now (CEO Mary Barra) is pushing back. She doesn't like markets where the company loses piles of money. She never has. That is why she got GM out of Europe in 2017." GM will be more profitable by conserving capital now to have it on hand later to develop new products as the market shifts in the future, Gordon said. Kevin Mixer, senior director analyst for automotive manufacturing at Gartner, said GM’s moves all signal that it’s preparing for the worst. “It does appear that the strategy has become ‘battening down the hatches’ to drive back to the basics of manufacturing consumer vehicles as the industry heads into uncertainties and economic headwinds,” Mixer told the Free Press on Wednesday. “Recent business ventures being rethought for near-term revenue contribution.” GM's response to Wall Street's calls China is still important to GM. It's the company's second-largest market behind the United States. But the restructuring happening there will be funded by GM's partners, the automaker does not need to infuse any cash in it. Regarding China, Jacobson said earlier this month at UBS: "We expect to be in a position to be profitable next year ... on a much smaller scale, but that’s OK as long as it’s not a significant capital draw. Some tough decisions have to be made in that space. But it preserves our ability to remain profitable." Similarly, Jacobson said Tuesday in relation to the Cruise news that the company realized that to continue down the path of deploying, maintaining and operating a robotaxi fleet would require a heavy capital investment on top of "the $10 billion we've already invested in it." It made more sense to direct resources to further advancing GM's existing hands-free technology in Super Cruise, which is offered on 20 vehicles. GM had been spending about $2 billion a year supporting Cruise and has never had a return on its investment since 2016. GM expects this restructuring to lower its spending on Cruise by more than $1 billion annually after the proposed plan is completed, which is expected in the first half of 2025. Cruise had been operating human-supervised fleets of self-driving vehicles in Phoenix, Dallas and Houston since summer after a pause caused by a pedestrian injury . Now, with the robotaxi idea dead, China's restructuring in the hands of its partners and the company having shed jobs it did not deem necessary, GM can focus on the strategic opportunities, while cutting costs, Ives said. "Wall Street wants to see a focused GM and Barra, and the team have heard the calls. It's why the stock has done so well this year," Ives said. Shares of the Detroit automaker have risen more than 50% this year, but some of that has been through $12.4 billion in stock buybacks since last November. GM has said it will continue making stock repurchases for the foreseeable future. The 'sea change' at GM Ives said GM is now set up well for whatever may come in 2025. Whiston agreed saying, "I don’t think they are pessimistic about 2025, but they are hyperfocused on capital efficiency and reducing costs." Others appear to agree. Morgan Stanley recently upgraded GM stock to "equal-weight" in its 2025 U.S. Autos Outlook. Autos analyst Adam Jonas wrote in a Wednesday research note that the Cruise robotaxi news is consistent with the "narrative-changing discipline" in GM's other recent moves that show improved execution and capital spending discipline, which led to that upgrade. Freedom Capital Market's Ward said people are not giving GM enough credit for its decision on Cruise, noting GM is not getting out of autonomous-active safety; it is just shifting it to various degrees of use on personal cars. “I think GM’s very optimistic about 2025," Ward said. "There’s been a sea change at General Motors. Their lack of capital discipline got them into trouble in the 1990s and 2000s. They’re doing a restructuring in China, but the Chinese joint venture is paying for it. When you’re looking at a new year and how you’re allocating capital, you look at this robotaxi and say does this make sense? No, it doesn’t. They made the right call on that." The Detroit Three automakers should always be cautious heading into the new year, Ward said, because the auto industry is capital-intensive, labor-intensive, cyclical, low growth, highly regulated and highly competitive. "So if you’re Paul Jacobson, the CFO at General Motors, and you have to present a capital plan to your constituents and have the board sign off on it," Ward said, "you better be conservative." Contact Jamie L. LaReau: jlareau@freepress.com . Follow her on Twitter @ jlareauan .

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Donald Trump said Saturday that a surprise meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Florida was "very productive," days after the incoming US leader rattled Ottawa with a vow to impose tariffs on Canadian imports. Trudeau, on an unannounced visit, had been seen smiling Friday as he exited a hotel in West Palm Beach to head to a dinner at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate. Afterward, Trump posted on his Truth Social website that he had had "a very productive meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau." He said the two men had discussed issues including "the Fentanyl and Drug Crisis that has decimated so many lives as a result of Illegal Immigration." He added, "Prime Minister Trudeau has made a commitment to work with us to end this terrible devastation of U.S. Families." Trudeau told journalists that he had had an "excellent conversation" with Trump, but did not elaborate. Trump has blamed Canada and Mexico for not stemming an influx of undocumented migrants and he blames them, and China, for drug problems in the United States. Trudeau's trip came after Trump sent shockwaves through the region Monday when he announced 25 percent import tariffs against Canada and Mexico and 10 percent against China if they failed to address the drug and migration problems. Such tariffs could have a devastating impact if imposed. More than three-quarters of Canadian exports, or Can$592.7 billion ($423 billion), went to the United States last year, and nearly two million Canadian jobs are dependent on trade. A Canadian government source had told AFP that Canada was considering possible retaliatory tariffs against the United States. Trudeau was the first foreign leader to meet with the US president-elect. But on Wednesday, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke to Trump by phone and later ruled out a trade war with the United States. "There will not be a potential tariff war," she told reporters Thursday. Trump later said that Sheinbaum had "agreed to stop migration through Mexico... effectively closing our Southern border." But she said that there would be no closing of the border, stating: "Of course we do not agree with that." Some have suggested Trump's tariff threat was bluster, or an opening salvo in future trade negotiations. But Trudeau rejected those views when he spoke with reporters earlier in Prince Edward Island province. "Donald Trump, when he makes statements like that, he plans on carrying them out," Trudeau said. "There's no question about it." amc/jgc/nro/bbk/bfm

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Juan Soto gets free luxury suite and up to 4 premium tickets for home games in $765M Mets dealThe Mets also agreed to provide personal team security for the All-Star outfielder and his family at the team’s expense for all spring training and regular-season home and road games, according to details of the agreement obtained by The Associated Press. Major League Baseball teams usually provide security for player families in seating areas at ballparks. New York also agreed to assist Soto's family for in-season travel arrangements, guaranteed Soto will have uniform No. 22 and included eight types of award bonuses. Soto's suite will be valued at the Mets' prevailing prices, presumably for tax purposes, and after 2025 he can by each Jan. 15 modify or give up his suite selection for the upcoming season. He can request the premium tickets, to be used by family members, no later than 72 hours before the scheduled game time. The Yankees had refused to offer Soto a free suite. “Some high-end players that make a lot of money for us, if they want suites they buy them ... whether it's CC (Sabathia), whether it’s (Aaron) Judge, whether it’s (Gerrit) Cole, whether it’s any of these guys," general manager Brian Cashman said. "We've gone through a process on previous negotiations where asks might have happened and this is what we did and we’re going to honor those, so no regrets there." Cashman said the Yankees have a shared suite for player families and a family room with babysitting. Soto gets a $75 million signing bonus, payable within 60 days of the agreement’s approval by the commissioner’s office. The deal for the 26-year-old, which tops Shohei Ohtani's $700 million, 10-year contract with the Dodgers, was reached Sunday pending a physical that took place Tuesday. Soto receives salaries of $46,875,000 each in 2025 and 2026, $42.5 million in 2027, $46,875,000 apiece in 2028 and 2029 and $46 million in each of the final 10 seasons. Soto has a contingent right to opt out of the agreement within three days of the end of the 2029 World Series to become a free agent again, but the Mets have the an option to negate the opt-out provision by increasing the yearly salaries for 2030-39 by $4 million annually to $50 million and raising the total value to $805 million. If the club exercises its option to negate the opt-out provision, Soto can make his opt-out decision by the fifth day after the World Series. He has a full no-trade provision and gets a hotel suite on road trips. Soto would receive a $500,000 bonus for winning his first Most Valuable Player award and $1 million for each MVP award. He would get $350,000 for finishing second in the voting and $150,000 for finishing third through fifth. Soto was third in the AL voting this year. He would earn $100,000 for each All-Star selection and Gold Glove, $350,000 for World Series MVP and $150,000 for League Championship Series MVP. Soto would get $100,000 for selection to the All-MLB first or second team, $150,000 for Silver Slugger and $100,000 for the Hank Aaron Award. Award bonuses are to be paid by the Jan. 31 after the season in which the bonus is earned. AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb

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