Hal Steinbrenner quickly sets up Yankees’ own Juan Soto plan after Mets schedule visit

Hal Steinbrenner will not spell down without a flight.

It is not conscionable Mets proprietor Steve Cohen who is readying a travel to Southern California to spot Juan Soto and Scott Boras. The Yankees proprietor is expected to alert retired for a sojourn pinch nan superstar free supplier and his supplier successful astir a week and a half, manufacture sources said Friday.

The nonstop day for nan sitdown was not instantly clear, but much clear was nan truth nan Yankees were assured of a talk pinch Soto aft nan Mets person theirs.

Cohen is group to make nan travel to Soto and Boras adjacent week, sources told The Post connected Thursday, successful an effort to lure nan slugger to Queens.

The billionaire behemoths person begun nan conflict for 1 of nan astir enticing shot free agents ever — a conflict that surely will see overmuch of nan remainder of nan convention but could travel down to nan New York powers.

Soto, of course, knows nan Yankees good aft spending this past play successful The Bronx, wherever he was not conscionable superb but instantly beloved.

He was a instrumentality favorite, fresh successful good successful nan clubhouse and performed arsenic advertised astatine nan plate, wherever he posted a .989 OPS pinch 41 location runs successful 157 games while conducting nan astir entertaining at-bats successful nan game.

Cohen and presumably different owners crossed nan convention will person introductory meetings; Steinbrenner will make judge a acquainted sound is heard, too.

“Since [Soto] knows us, we are opinionated fresh to meet pinch him if he feels it basal to meet pinch us,” Yankees wide head Brian Cashman said this week astatine nan GM meetings. “He understands nan scenery of opportunities that now beryllium for himself. He’s played successful San Diego. He’s played successful Washington. Now he’s played here. So we are much than consenting to meet arsenic galore times arsenic he would for illustration to meet.”

Boras has different apical free agents connected nan marketplace who could warrant a chat pinch Steinbrenner, but location is nary 1 disposable for illustration Soto.

A generational hitter who turned conscionable 26 past period — and who collaborated pinch Aaron Judge to transportation nan Yankees to nan World Series this past play — could attack nan grounds $700 million fixed to Shohei Ohtani past winter.

There is nary 1 successful nan athletics who has much money than Cohen. There is nary 1 successful nan athletics facing much unit to motion Soto than Steinbrenner, whose nine mortgaged portion of its early successful trading for nan outfielder up of his locomotion twelvemonth and whose nine has not won a World Series since 2009.

The Blue Jays, Dodgers, Giants, Red Sox and Rays are known to person shown liking successful Soto, but nan Yankees’ biggest threat apt will travel from their neighbors.

“They want to win,” Cashman said this week of nan Mets. “They are successful a ample marketplace pinch us, had a sensation of occurrence this twelvemonth and they want to move nan needle moreover much forward. The champion measurement to do that is import value players to what you already have.”