The Juan Soto trade is honing in one location: New York City. It's happening for more reasons than just the New York Yankees and New York Mets having an interest in trading for him. It's also because his situation is becoming baseball's version of the Kevin Durant situation.

According to Jon Heyman of the New York Post, the Yankees and Mets will look into trading for the 23-year-old superstar and the Washington Nationals have a massive asking price. One team executive compared Soto's situation to that of Durant, the Brooklyn Nets superstar.

“It’s going to be like Kevin Durant,” says one top decision-maker with a rival team, alluding to the NBA great who seems hard for the Nets to trade due to the difficulty of acquiring equal value for a monster talent.

Early unconfirmed speculation is that the Nats would request a team’s top four prospects and/or young major leaguers and perhaps a willingness to take Patrick Corbin’s bloated contract.

Juan Soto said that he doesn't have a strong interest in leaving the Nationals but also declined a $440 million extension from Washington. The team will now consider trading him and has a massive asking price for him.

The situations between Soto and Durant are not entirely the same. Durant asked for a trade but has several more years left on his contract, so the Nets can wait to trade him. Soto is on a one-year deal, so the clock is ticking for the Nationals.

The clear similarity is that Juan Soto and Kevin Durant will both command a historic trade package if they get moved. Both are among the biggest superstars of their era.