Vinnie Pasquantino’s day job is to play first base and hit third for the Kansas City Royals, right behind Bobby Witt Jr. in the lineup for the on-the-rise MLB team.
He may want to think about adding a side hustle as an NFL insider.
At 12:22 p.m. ET on Monday, March 10, Pasquantino tweeted, “Justin Fields to the Jets. Sources: me??? 2 years 35 million??? Ok going to the cages to start my day.”
At 2:39 p.m., more than two hours later, ESPN insider Adam Schefter broke the news of Fields signing with the Jets for two years and $40 million, including $30 million guaranteed.
Pasquantino called the shot.
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There’s a couple possible explanations, of course. Pasquantino may have just gotten lucky with a weirdly on-the-spot prediction. He also may have a player-agent connection to Fields and chose to reveal what was some still-to-be-finalized information.
Regardless, it’s quite the hit for Pasquantino, who burst onto the scene in 2024 as a standout for the Royals before missing time with an injury.
Pasquantino, a 6-foot-4 lefty hitter, ripped 19 home runs and put up a .761 OPS last season, being named to MLB.com’s All-Underrated Team after the season.
He’s from Richmond, Virginia and went to Old Dominion for college, so he has no obvious Jets fandom. He just decided to post on X before heading to the cages with some of the biggest news of NFL free agency’s opening day, two hours before it made it out to the masses.
One reply to Pasquantino’s tweet said it best: “Predict the Royals to win the World Series next.”
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