Its really not that big an assumption.
What is the biggest asset in the Nationals organization? It was Juan Soto. Theres no way a sale goes through if new owners get caught unaware of this. And its not hard to understand why they would want the Lerners to do it.
They aint gonna spend huge. They're going to run the team like a small to mid market team.
I don't know that 2 years of Soto is really that great of an asset. The return was basically what that asset was worth.
Uncertainty is always a liability for big sales, and getting this settled probably makes it a more clean sale. You have to believe that they try to settle the MASN mess for the same reason, because it is an even bigger question mark.
