Trade: [BOS/LAD] Mookie Betts and David Price for Alex Verdugo, Jeter Downs, and Connor Wong

[Voight]

the marlins gutted their entire roster after winning in 97

They did, but management stuck around for a couple years after. I don't know if a team has ever got rid of all 3 so soon after winning.

Just heard an interesting idea: Now that Price is off the books in Boston, they may go hard after Betts next offseason when he hits free agency

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They can try providing LA does not get him signed, but they did also trade him even though he wanted to stay.

Hell, didn't they do it when they won the second time too?

They did but guys like Castillo, Lowell and Beckett were still around for a couple more years.

 

[tony d]

There goes Betts. Not sure I'm a fan of the return back to Boston though.

 

[Halladay]

The Red Sox are being cheap here but one cannot not say that FSG doesnt know how to run a sporting organization. With the Red Sox luck, they will get another World Series in the next few years.

 

[darko]

Just heard an interesting idea: Now that Price is off the books in Boston, they may go hard after Betts next offseason when he hits free agency

I doubt he makes the free agency.

 

[GIN ANTONIC]

I doubt he makes the free agency.

Also does not seem like the relationship between Betts and Boston is super peachy. He was looking to test the market originally and since then the Red Sox have fires their manager and are going through a scandal investigation. Don’t see why he’d be clamouring to head back.

And yes, LAD were one of the front runners to make a big pitch for Betts in FA so they’ll have the year to woo him and lock him up. They have the money and the space to do it.

 

[Voight]

With Mookie Betts Trade, Red Sox Stick to an Unpopular Plan

NYT reporting Red Sox will indeed pay half of what Price is owed, so $40 million+

 

[Big Poppa Puck]

I don't think Boston got enough, but then again Price had negative value and Betts probably walks in the offseason.

Graterol probably winds up a hard throwing reliever.

 

[TonyDeAngelo]

This is so similar to them trading Ruth.

 

[DougieSmash]

The Red Sox traded their franchise player for a man credibly implicated in a sexual assault.

 

[Ben Grimm]

42 WAR in 6 years. 2nd best player in MLB.

 

[Static]

The Red Sox traded their franchise player for a man credibly implicated in a sexual assault.

Verdugo has had questions about his makeup for his entire career, the kid is a shitty person. Urias same deal, multiple incidents treating women like garbage.

And somehow Gabe Kapler still has a job. Cora might be a cheater but he didn't try and cover up a sexual assault.

 

[Marc the Habs Fan]

 

[TootooTrain]

I still don't know how in the world you deal Betts for this type of return.

 

[kanuck87]

Lol, the trade's still gonna happen. None of the teams are going to want to keep the players that they had planned on trading away. That would make things really awkward.

 

[John Price]

Red Sox got hosed rofl

 

[Cassano]

The media is talking about the Clint Capela trade more than this one. MLB has fallen off hard.

 

[AtlantaWhaler]

The media is talking about the Clint Capela trade more than this one. MLB has fallen off hard.

Eh...ESPN turned into the NBA network years ago. I wouldn't put much stock in them.

 

[Dr Pepper]

Anyone else think the trade is being held up by MLB's investigation of the 2018 Red Sox?

I know there weren't any player punishments (for whatever reason) when the Astros got burned, but what if that changes with this next investigation? Who's to say MLB doesn't hand down a suspension to Betts, and that's what the Dodgers are waiting on?

Seems odd that this deal still hasn't been finalized, three days later.

 

[AtlantaWhaler]

Anyone else think the trade is being held up by MLB's investigation of the 2018 Red Sox?

I know there weren't any player punishments (for whatever reason) when the Astros got burned, but what if that changes with this next investigation? Who's to say MLB doesn't hand down a suspension to Betts, and that's what the Dodgers are waiting on?

Seems odd that this deal still hasn't been finalized, three days later.

Apparently it's one of the prospect's physicals holding it up.

 

[Cassano]

Eh...ESPN turned into the NBA network years ago. I wouldn't put much stock in them.

Okay, but even the Canadian sports networks haven't really covered it.

NBA just seems so ahead of the pack everywhere. This was not the case 15-20 years ago.

 

[Mr Fahrenheit]

Boston is unhappy with Graterol because medical evaluation showed damage to his shoulder, i believe, which would make him a reliever instead of a starter

 

[MMC]

 

[MMC]

 

[Voight]

Anyone else think the trade is being held up by MLB's investigation of the 2018 Red Sox?

I know there weren't any player punishments (for whatever reason) when the Astros got burned, but what if that changes with this next investigation? Who's to say MLB doesn't hand down a suspension to Betts, and that's what the Dodgers are waiting on?

Seems odd that this deal still hasn't been finalized, three days later.

They certainly could, but it would be horsecrap to punish BoSox players and not Astros players. It would cause a huge stir.

Boston is unhappy with Graterol because medical evaluation showed damage to his shoulder, i believe, which would make him a reliever instead of a starter

Henry knows he got hosed and is just trying to get something else to keep the fan mob away.

 

[Centrum Hockey]

They certainly could, but it would be horsecrap to punish BoSox players and not Astros players. It would cause a huge stir.



Henry knows he got hosed and is just trying to get something else to keep the fan mob away.

They don’t need to care about the fan mob. There are to many pink hat fans in Boston that will go to Fenway regardless.