{"id":252620,"date":"2022-07-19T21:15:02","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T21:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/nationals-refused-to-charter-juan-soto-a-flight-to-home-run-derby-so-he-flew-commercial"},"modified":"2022-07-19T21:15:02","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T21:15:02","slug":"nationals-refused-to-charter-juan-soto-a-flight-to-home-run-derby-so-he-flew-commercial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/nationals-refused-to-charter-juan-soto-a-flight-to-home-run-derby-so-he-flew-commercial","title":{"rendered":"Nationals refused to charter Juan Soto a flight to Home Run Derby, so he flew commercial"},"content":{"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 Los Angeles, days after he rejected a record 15-year, $440 million contract extension.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, D.C. on Sunday. The Braves chartered a plane to Los Angeles for their players. The Nationals did not. &#8220;The Atlanta Braves arrived (in Los Angeles) five hours earlier than Juan Soto did,&#8221; Boras told Sports Illustrated. &#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<\/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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}