this trade is crazy... Still can't believe Andrew Friedman pulled this off. Dodgers traded ZERO minor leaguers or prospect. I repeat...ZERO prospects!! In the aftermath of all these trades they kept Lux, May, Gonsolin, Ruiz, Downs, & Gray. That’s impressive. And received the best player in baseball not named Trout in a contract year. Plus Dodgers not paying entire contract for Price. + Dodgers get infield depth in Luis Rengifo from Angels and salary relief from Boston. 😳
Il Des デス lol, I’m a huge Dodger fan and you’re exactly right. Only thing is Verdugo was one of the best prospects from our system and turned out to be pretty good his first year. Now he’s no Betts obviously but yes, Friedman was extremely patient and that was the key. He’s been so good on keeping our core talent from our farm and did not budge!
Ik that's fucking awesome. They could still go trade for a Lindor and Clevinger if they wish as well. They still got prospects, depth and money. Jesus Christ
Yes!! And look at where we're placing these former Dodgers. They're all going to start for their new teams and contribute right away. Classy Dodgers, cheers to the front office.
What a trade for the Dodgers! Getting the second best player in baseball along with David Price who I think will be a very solid No. 3 starter. Losing some depth hurts, but the Dodgers just clinched the National League Pennant in February
Jorge Arispe yup this is nice to have but Dodgers NEED to bolster both Starting and Bullpen Pitching. Maybe use those angels prospects to get Clevinger with solid Bullpen arms?
Pitching wins in the playoffs, and Dodgers need more depth at that spot. A lot can still happen during the season, I have a feeling them and the Yanks will be making some moves during the season. Also, you should know that Price doesn't exactly have a great record against the Yankees lol.
My Prediction for every player BA: Betts .310 +25HR, Muncy .270 +30HR, Turner .290 +20HR, Bellinger .300 +35HR Seager .300 +20HR(within top 3 leading in doubles), Pollock(if healthy) .275 +20HR, rookies if Can live up the hype: Lux .290 +20HR, Smith .280 +20HR Pitchers era: Buehler under 3.00 +250 SO, Kershaw (if Can lay-off FB) just near 3.00 near 200 SO. Urias 3.00 +150 SO, May 3.50 200 SO, Gonsolin 3.20 200 SO, Wood (pontetial) 3.10 +150 SO, Price(bounce back?) 3.50 +200 SO.
Yes era and BA are near my opinions they can have under 3.00 era more or less StrikeOuts. BA as well they can have higher BA or less and same with HR’s (my opinion) so yes I can be wrong of course at end of season all numbers can be worse or better. FOR KERSHAW IF HE CAB LAY-OFF THAT FASTBALL AND THROW MORE CHANGEUPS AND SLIDERS. YES HE CAN BECOME DOMINANT AGAIN.
ApparentlyEric offense looks like a video game honestly. Not all of them are injury prone like the Yankees just stating facts. Yes pitchers can be higher but even if most can pitch 3.50 era or lower with this offense we should be winning a lot of the games. Just ridiculous. The reason I put those era on each of them cause they still have pontential bounce backs specially on Kershaw and woods. Rookies will have to step up and try to live up the hype as well.
Logan Paolacci honestly you guys downgrade idk what’s the hype. Greinke is by far WAY BETTER than MadBum yes I wanted MadBum to Dodgers and would definitely help even if you guys kept greinke then yes it would be scary to face off DBacks. Marte is just a downgrade from Paul Goldy.
As a dodgers fan I'm going to say this right now. I believe the Yankees and the dodgers are the two best teams in baseball. We will see y'all at the pennant!
For those of you complaining about Betts turning down $300 Million for 10 years, this should explain it: 1. Mookie Betts had 4 gold gloves, an MVP, 3 silver sluggers and is a 4x all star (career BA of .301). He has a career WAR of 42.0 after 6 seasons. Mike Trout had a WAR of 47.5 after his first 6 season. What Im trying to say is the second best player in all of baseball is Mookie Betts. If Mike Trout got 12 year at $430 Why would Betts take a 10-12 year contract worth $300? 2. To put this into perspective, Manny Machado got 10 yrs @$300 and Harper got 13 yrs @ $330. Betts has better numbers and accolades than both players and hes a year younger with two less seasons under his belt. He also has a better WAR than both players. You are low-balling the second best player in the league especially when there are players out there would arent in that stratosphere getting paid. i would have started at $360 and go from there. 3. If this still doesnt make sense, Think of it like this. Jeff Bezos of Amazon is the richest man in the world with $114 Billion, Bill Gates is the second richest with $106 Billion, Next is Warren Buffet at $80 billion and Mark Zuckerberg at $69 Billion. Mike Trout and Mookie Betts are Jeff and Bill and then there is everyone else.
Here’s a baseball secret.... Hitters don’t impact the game as much as you think they do. Pitchers do. Octobers highlight this fact but we still love the long-ball too much.
Trzn really? Because Bellinger sure didn’t seem like it. There were only “concerns” and not actual evidence. Teams have been accused all the time and these allegations mean nothing. If it were true the dodger players would not have said what they did because if it was discovered that they did the same they would look really bad. The players that keep silent though...
@@SenorTortas lmao. Learn how the draft works, sport. The numbers don't lie. Anything under the first 3 rounds has a less than 10% chance of ever making it. Anyone after the 10 round? A less than 1% chance. It happens, but it doesn't happen often.
you see what you just said there Don ppl get on the NYY for doing the exact same thing BOS does. you spend to get better the perception when we do it we buy championships MF BOS is doing the exact same thing. it's no different than what we do the hypocrisy in that is appaling .
@@joseurena3640 no not at all i was just pointing out Don's point of BOS spending and we do the same. so idk why we get hate for spending bc BOS does it. their a big market when your a big market your supposed to spend.
@@johnpestano22 Oh that envy is wild! It's not that the Yankees players are good iT's jUsT tHaT tHeY maKe So MuCh MoNeY. I'm a Mets fan and the team spends too, just not well.
as a dodgers fan I'm stoked, I think the only reason red sox can be upset about is the return they got for Mookie, Yes there was some salary dump with price attached but still to only get back verdugo and a prospect is insane
The politicians like Sanders create laws to avoid paying taxes. Pelosi gets agricultural tax exemption on her $120 mill ranch/vineyard,gets agricultural subsidies on her crops,uses cheap Mexican labor,gets tax return thanks to the schedule F IRS forms but wants you to pay more. If you think I'm lying about her,why won't she ever release her tax returns.
CNN founder & former Braves owner Ted Turner owns 1.2 mill acres of land,gets more money in tax breaks for agriculture than pays in. Just a big money making scheme. Same with Warren Buffett who's currently profited over $50 mill annually by installing solar farms with government grants created by Obama,same with Bezos. It's all about the $$$$ the government likes to piss away.
BOS doesn't have a chance after sanctions. Betts didn't wanna be buried with that team since platers don't get punished directly, he can get out and be scot free.
It pisses me off when people act short sighted by saying John Henry is a billionaire so he should just pay. The red Sox payroll even after letting Holt Porcello and every single free agent walk except for Moreland was at 240 million. Over the highest tax threshold for the 3rd consecutive year. Henry might have paid the tax and kept it there but the team didn't have any value to show for that kind of money. There's no bullpen, no backup catcher after Leon trade, no outfield depth somehow mookie Bradley or benintendi never got hurt, no notable 2nd baseman and NO FARM SYSTEM. No prospects so you can't improve the team by trades. If you spend your payroll goes up to 250-260 million yeah Henry can afford it but so can the dodgers and Yankees. Why the fuck do those teams try staying fiscally responsible ? Because it's smart you have payroll flexibility red Sox have none of that. Many holes in the team with a payroll at 240 and no farm system. This is mainly on one person and his name is Dave Dombrowski the man has gutted this team for one championship and is now gonna enjoy life.
Yash yep...they spend an obscene amount and have won 4 times in 15 years. Fans/Reporters feel entitled to 100% of a teams revenue stream. Plus if the owner is rich enough they want him to write checks out of his personal account. This despite the fact that effectively 100% of major position player FA deals turn out poorly. And it’s not just 1-2 years at the end. It’s often 70 % of the deal or more.
@@33moneyball he had David price Porcello Martinez eovaldi sale bogaerts on long term contracts. And somehow he's getting blamed. I'd understand if there were 3-4 other teams who had a payroll over 230 million but there are none. A team can't keep doing that for 2-3 years. Kay as well being smart by saying rich people don't like paying taxes. It's not just the tax they're missing out on first round pricks ffs. Red Sox can't trade their best players easily coz they're on absurd amount of money every year they're over the threshold they're losing draft picks. What is Henry supposed to do ? Wave a magic wand and make everything fine. I hate letting mookie go but if you do stupid things you have to deal with the consequences. Dombrowski nicely got himself fired leaving red Sox fans to suffer
No one understands how big of a mistake this is for the Dodgers. Simply put, the Dodgers were gonna make the postseason whether you like it or not. However, their weaknesses have always been the bullpen. By not making a move for the pen, it's gonna be the same old story for the Dodgers. Dave Roberts blows a lead by making a mistake in the pen. The Dodgers offense doesn't come through in the late innings. Another team wins the playoff series. Done.
TheAlchemic1 valid argument on your end. But our offense and management has been at fault in the last postseason. Getting betts is the bold bold move to get that batter with the eagle eye with the bear swinging power to keep our offense going. If this gets us our title than it was all worth it. Our window is closing..
Bullpen has been a problem but it's been revitalize with treinen Nelson and wood can come out of the pen. Also bullpen pieces can be picked up at the deadline. They DFAd poor performers like chagias, Floro, and Garcia. I see the Dodger pen being a major improvement this year
@@MadKingTylor I don't get the dismissiveness. Sale had an off year and Eovaldi was injured. If both guys are healthy and pitch well, the sox will have plenty of pop to drive in runs.
the downside of this news Pax had surgery today to repair something i read on twitter. he will be out for 3-4 months so Monty will get the rotation spot.
I saw that!! This dude is a mess. He's never going to be healthy. He's starting to make Troy Tulo look like he was as reliable as Cal Ripken JR. If they don't put Monty to take his spot I'm going to be livid!!!
As a die hard dodger fan, I really dont know how to feel about this trade. Yes Mookie Betts is amazing but then again it's only one year and he wants to be a free agent. I feel like this is only totally worth it IF Mookie signs with the Dodgers after 2020, which is unlikely.
ryan phillips from what articles I’ve seen there still floating the idea but realistically it ain’t gonna happen besides Montreal is a hockey town not a baseball town
As a respectable redsox fan that lives in nyc. It was the right move to make long term. We weren’t winning with betts in the team or without. You can make a case that this philosophy works because in the span of 20 years they have gotten 4 chips.
@@mauricortez702 the red sox didn't cheat thats the really awkward thing, and nothing was done in the playoffs, facts are facts, stop being salty because shiterino was throwing meatballs
As much as I like pedroia he's only played 10 games in the last 2 years that 10 out of 324 games. That's also $13 million ish. It's about time for them to chat and figure out if he's going to retire or get released. It's almost time to report to camp he needs to make a decision.
Isn’t it odd that Betts was the MVP the year that the Red Sox were blamed for cheating? Isn’t it odd that Altuve won the MVP award the year they admittedly cheated? 🤔
@@GodInHisPrime Where can your information found at? Please share the link that will verify and help us all understand how the alleged cheating was limited to the playoffs. And if it were limited to the playoffs, why wait until October to try something so risky. Usually we practice and work kinks out before it is actually done in real-time.
@@PJH4101 You can't possibly be suggesting that these guys are only good when their teams are cheating; they are clearly extremely talented. They both have posted multiple MVP-worthy seasons. Unfortunately for them, Mike Trout (and each other) exists
@@georgemoody3531 just imagine PED's and knowing the pitch... By the way show me how a team of PED users that won it all. I can without a doubt show you a team of admitted cheaters who won it all in 2017.
JD Martinez, Chris Sale, David Price, Rick Porcello, Xander Bogaerts. Red Sox haven't spent money? What sport are you watching? They just didn't want to spend $400M on a single player, or let it ride and have Mookie walk for a Comp pick. I don't blame them for moving him
Red Sox and spurs fan here, Mookie has been my favorite player here since David Ortiz retired and I hate the Sox for this move. I still love and will root for mookie but my anger falls with the Red Sox on this one. Kawhi leaving was different because he wanted to leave and acted very unprofessional when leaving San Antonio.
Why didn't they use his last years rankings. Or rankings from the past three years. They picked two years of stats, because that includes his MVP season, but not his .264 year. Betts feasts on bad pitching, but based on his .227 avg, 1 HR, and 4 RBI's in his playoff career, good pitching eats him up. He also lacks opposite field power. For a guy that is asking for Mike Trout type money, he is nowhere near the talent that Trout is.
Since Price has left the Rays the yankees have dominated him. I look forward to a Yankees vs Dodgers world series because great pitching usually always beats great hitting in the playoffs. Yankees will have Cole, Sevy, Tanaka who dominated in the playoffs, and even Paxton if they need a 4th starter. Good luck to whatever N.L. team who makes it.
Matt Victorella WHOEVER NL TEAMS MAKE IT???? Bro YOU DO REALIZE THE DODGERS STARTING PITCHING doesnt depend on KERSHAW OR PRICE and they can still make another blockbuster trade or two before the deadline.... rid u miss their batting line up. Calm down and you better hope the Yankess make it to the dance.
@@nordicblood8470 atrocious English and if you actually watched baseball you would know the Yankees won 103 games last year while being one the most injured teams in MLB history. They're players are entering their primes and they just signed Cole who is in his Prime/Apex. The Yankees are clearly the best team in baseball and should be prohibited favorites.
An angle that people don't seem to be considering. Because the Sox traded Price along with Betts, they are in a better position to resign Betts after 2020. If they're paying half of Price's contract, they could actually take it up the ass and give in to Betts' $42 million salary demand next year and still be $4 million BETTER OFF than they would have been paying Mookie $30 million while holding onto Price. So this trade actually puts them in a better position to resign Betts AND gets them under the tax threshold. Not only that, but Betts' contract value could go down after playing a year away from the friendly confines of Fenway and in the spacious LA park. This deal is starting to look better and better for the Sox the more I look at it.
@@43Magicman But in 2018 he had an OPS of 1.078, a .346 batting average and won the MVP. Tell what other year did Betts had an OPS over 1.000 and a batting average close to .346? Did he benefited from the cheating in 2018 to win the MVP?
The Yankees would destroy them. They have no starting pitching. Who's even their ace? Ohtani coming off TJ surgery and most likely be on an innings limit because of it? They'd get swept easily by the Yankees in the playoffs.
@@danny12threes6 Those were the Mike Scioscia led Angels teams that always gave the Yankees fits. Reason being is they were aggressive on the basepaths and had a ton of good contact hitters to go along with a dynamic bullpen. This current Angel team is nowhere close to that team. Plus we got revenge by smashing them in the 2009 ALCS on our way to a World Series Championship.
There will be 4 good teams coming out of the AL East. Yankees obviously the favorite. But boston will still be good and Tampa too and dont sleep on toronto
@Harry Engel they could challenge it. One thing for sure, the Orioles pitching got worse over the offseason, with Bundy leaving. And their offense got worse too since Villar left! But they did upgrade significantly at short adding Iglesias over richie Martin. .. they went 54-108 last year. I'll guess they go 48 - 114 this year!
Dodgers will win another division title, maybe go all the way to the world series.... But Roberts will find a way not to win. Good luck to Verdugo in Boston, if Healthy he can help the sox...
The Gonzalez/Crawford trade didn't boost Boston even a tiny bit. The Dodgers emptied their trash can on the Redsox, which shows how keen they were to get rid of Crawford. None of the 5 guys traded by the Dodgers turned into a long term quality Red Sox player. Most wound up in the minors. Boston's 2013 win had nothing to do with that trade.
The point of the trade was to have Dodgers bail Boston out of two bad contracts which they did. They're attempting to do the same here. That being said, you're right. The 2013 championship had a lot more to do with Detroit's atrocious bullpen blowing games 2 and 6 of the ALCS which ultimately cost them a pennant. We're still the favorites to win the WS, but the haters (especially the cocky Astros fans) will continue to say we have no chance.
It’s like Saquon Barkley. Great player but one on a team going nowhere at the minute so he will walk in free agency. Boston is a similar situation. They had their success and now they are experiencing what the Yankees went through a couple of years back, ageing guys who are paid for what they were rather than what they are. This trade was about Price rather than Betts. Bottom line is they needed to shift the big contracts and the cost of that was Betts, either do something now and get a little or stand still and get nothing. Sucks if you’re a Red Sox fan but ultimately it was the right thing to do.
John Henry only cares about his football club Liverpool FC now. I can't blame him... his team is the biggest in the world at the moment and can make them more money in the future since it's the biggest sport in the world.
If a player is worth more than that, I think every person working any kind of job full-time, all the way down to Wal-Mart or McDonalds, should make enough money to pay for the basic lineup of bills each month. Or the additional staff members in our public schools (paras, substitute teachers, etc) who are considered the special people who work in our schools. They sure don't make money like they are doing anything special.
Any employee's worth is in some way based on the amount of money they help produce for the employer... if the team makes 600 million in revenue every year, then paying something like $420 million for 12 years (35 million per year) for one of the best players in baseball isn't crazy financially. That player would be making just under 6% of the total team revenue.... which is a lot, but not insane considering the amount of skill required to play the game of baseball. MLB players are not "replaceable" unlike most professions where there are millions of other people who could take your spot without significantly compromising performance. So if the owners want to keep producing $600 million products on the field, they will pay players a lot to do so.... and as long as fans continue to pay top dollar for MLB entertainment, the owners will continue to have an incentive to pay players lots of money. That's how the world works: it's not based on what jobs are important or anything of that nature. Society and jobs are structured to make monetary sense... not to be ethically sound.
The tax arguement that rich people dont like paying taxes first off NO ONE likes paying taxes and 12 million is another's player salary so essentially you are paying a extra player with no return it's simple
I think what he meant by that is that rich people look for ways around taxes. Ultimately they still do pay a lot in taxes but they find ways to avoid paying as much as they theoretically should
Cora had to go and the punishments were going to hurt them. It's a sad, mixed deal. At least their fans aren't in denial about the whole cheating fiasco, unlike a certain other teams fans.
It would be ironic that Betts would be suspended for the '17' cheating scandal when it was the Dodgers who were on the short end of being cheated against and then they ultimately get punished for losing Betts.
Sox made a great move. Example- Nats DIDNT pay Harper and try won it all. You have to get guys that come up for club control. Mookie didn't want 300mill, that's stupid, you want 420mill!!! That's stupid as hell. Not worth it. We got a guy for 7yrs that throws 103, this outfielder is dam good, we control him 6yrs. What did you wanna do? Watch Mookie walk away with nothing? Oh a shitty draft pick. Price gets to much, always hurt, and the Yanks Own his ass. Thank you for 2018 Price. He may do ok in the NL but will get hurt, won't do much,,, good move Sox. It's not about a luxury tax, now we're under it, now we can make a splash next year! Let's go boys
james david manning - maybe but the Red Sox concern was that Betts seemed dedicated to testing the free agent market. If he does that, the Dodgers really aren’t much better off than if they just waited out the year and bid for him WITHOUT losing Verdugo.
No disrepsect but i think you need to think this one through (i am not a Red Sox or Yankees fan). 1. Mookie Betts had 4 gold gloves, an MVP, 3 silver sluggers and is a 4x all star (career BA of .301). He has a career WAR of 42.0 after 6 seasons. Mike Trout had a WAR of 47.5 after his first 6 season. What Im trying to say is the second best player in all of baseball is Mookie Betts. If Mike Trout got 12 year at $430 Why would Betts take a 10-12 year contract worth $300? 2. To put this into perspective, Manny Machado got 10 yrs @$300 and Harper got 13 yrs @ $330. Betts has better numbers and accolades than both players and hes a year younger with two less seasons under his belt. He also has a better WAR than both players. You are low-balling the second best player in the league especially when there are players out there would arent in that stratosphere getting paid. i would have started at $360 and go from there. 3. If this still doesnt make sense, Think of it like this. Jeff Bezos of Amazon is the richest man in the world with $114 Billion, Bill Gates is the second richest with $106 Billion, Next is Warren Buffet at $80 billion and Mark Zuckerberg at $69 Billion. Mike Trout and Mookie Betts are Jeff and Bill and then there is everyone else.
How much disrespect a team has for one player can't be duplicated anywhere else but in Boston. I hate to bring the race card out, but Mookie and Price were not the type of players Boston appreciates. From Price being called the N-word in Fenway to Celtics players being slurred at in the Garden. I bet David Price & Mookie Betts both feel relieved to be out of there.
@Patrick Ryan so, the racial slurs never happened in Fenway and fans weren't escorted and banned for life? Warnings to other fans never happened? I know you can't generalize these actions based on a few idiots, and I am sorry for doing that. Boston is a great city with some of the nicest people.
@Patrick Ryan critical thinking is a 1990's approach to problem solving. Emotional intelligence is something you may need to bone up and study buddy. Let's look at the emotional side of your argument. 1a. It happens everywhere, so Boston fans are off the hook. 1b. Yankees fans are just as bad as Red Sox fans when you look at the Deshields incident. a-b) Normalizes unacceptable behavior of pastimes and equivocating them with what we know today is a sweeping statement to win an argument. 2017, MLB investigated the Red Sox for this. JS. apnews.com/3431df69680943ac8086d5b1acc3a3a7/MLB-reviews-security-at-all-parks-after-Fenway-racial-slurs
Exactly. No one deserves those big contracts The Sox had to stay under the luxury tax and so did the angels in which the joc trade did not happen. Lets not ignore the facts that the angels payroll is massive this year.
Mookie was a 275 hitter on the road and a 314 hitter at home. I think the Red Sox knew, with all the cheating for the title in 2018, that his performance was impacted by it.
Mookie batted 295 last season and verdugo batted 294. They are the same player for way different prices. And David price was terrible. The Red Sox getting rid of him only decreased their payroll to help them out.
I'm sure that paying taxes bother everyone Mike, but keep pretending you arent making millions of dollars a year yourself, not that there is anything wrong with that
Yes but the players have been cheating so who says really how good are they really. hey are as good as they have been This year all eyes are watching o now we will see who is actually OOspot or great. Maybe the Red Sox are dumbing rather than love the cheating players.
this trade is crazy...
Still can't believe Andrew Friedman pulled this off.
Dodgers traded ZERO minor leaguers or prospect. I repeat...ZERO prospects!!
In the aftermath of all these trades they kept Lux, May, Gonsolin, Ruiz, Downs, & Gray. That’s impressive.
And received the best player in baseball not named Trout in a contract year.
Plus Dodgers not paying entire contract for Price.
+ Dodgers get infield depth in Luis Rengifo from Angels and salary relief from Boston.
😳
Il Des デス lol, I’m a huge Dodger fan and you’re exactly right. Only thing is Verdugo was one of the best prospects from our system and turned out to be pretty good his first year. Now he’s no Betts obviously but yes, Friedman was extremely patient and that was the key. He’s been so good on keeping our core talent from our farm and did not budge!
yeah, when i first heard about this trade i was shocked that the dodgers were able to hold on to their prospects
Ik that's fucking awesome. They could still go trade for a Lindor and Clevinger if they wish as well. They still got prospects, depth and money. Jesus Christ
Yes!! And look at where we're placing these former Dodgers. They're all going to start for their new teams and contribute right away. Classy Dodgers, cheers to the front office.
@@mh-do3pe Yea letting guys that were on the bench or getting shelved an opportunity to prove themselves and get more playing time. Props to them
Dodgers Yankees 2020 World Series! Winner gets rights for 2017!
🤣 I like that!
Kershaw sucks and he'd blow it. Go Yankees!
Take 2017 and give it back to the Indians
Mookie is a yankee killer 💯
MrGigaHurtz They’re gonna choke anyway.
The most impressive thing is that joc survived. I love him but man there is no way the Angels should've let him go.
What a trade for the Dodgers! Getting the second best player in baseball along with David Price who I think will be a very solid No. 3 starter. Losing some depth hurts, but the Dodgers just clinched the National League Pennant in February
I'm a Dodgers fan but building a team with great players doesn't guarantee success in the playoffs
Jorge Arispe yup this is nice to have but Dodgers NEED to bolster both Starting and Bullpen Pitching. Maybe use those angels prospects to get Clevinger with solid Bullpen arms?
@@connerc7146 They definetly need to aquire a dominant starter to compliment Walker Buhler.
Pitching wins in the playoffs, and Dodgers need more depth at that spot. A lot can still happen during the season, I have a feeling them and the Yanks will be making some moves during the season. Also, you should know that Price doesn't exactly have a great record against the Yankees lol.
@@MrZadir-nu7bd They need a starter that won't poop the bed like Kershaw always does come October.
Buck Foston!
My Prediction for every player BA: Betts .310 +25HR, Muncy .270 +30HR, Turner .290 +20HR, Bellinger .300 +35HR Seager .300 +20HR(within top 3 leading in doubles), Pollock(if healthy) .275 +20HR, rookies if Can live up the hype: Lux .290 +20HR, Smith .280 +20HR
Pitchers era: Buehler under 3.00 +250 SO, Kershaw (if Can lay-off FB) just near 3.00 near 200 SO. Urias 3.00 +150 SO, May 3.50 200 SO, Gonsolin 3.20 200 SO, Wood (pontetial) 3.10 +150 SO, Price(bounce back?) 3.50 +200 SO.
Yes era and BA are near my opinions they can have under 3.00 era more or less StrikeOuts. BA as well they can have higher BA or less and same with HR’s (my opinion) so yes I can be wrong of course at end of season all numbers can be worse or better. FOR KERSHAW IF HE CAB LAY-OFF THAT FASTBALL AND THROW MORE CHANGEUPS AND SLIDERS. YES HE CAN BECOME DOMINANT AGAIN.
The ERAs are gonna be much higher aside from Walker Buehler. But that offense is unreal.
ApparentlyEric offense looks like a video game honestly. Not all of them are injury prone like the Yankees just stating facts. Yes pitchers can be higher but even if most can pitch 3.50 era or lower with this offense we should be winning a lot of the games. Just ridiculous. The reason I put those era on each of them cause they still have pontential bounce backs specially on Kershaw and woods. Rookies will have to step up and try to live up the hype as well.
Gaddi Moreno Kelly 99.99 ERA
Kershaw sucks hard, belongs in Baltimores BP
Imagine how tough the Dodgers will be this year.
Easy division also helps.
Chris Tyler dbacks gonna surprise y’all
@Trzn you misspelled "Cheated"
Logan Paolacci honestly you guys downgrade idk what’s the hype. Greinke is by far WAY BETTER than MadBum yes I wanted MadBum to Dodgers and would definitely help even if you guys kept greinke then yes it would be scary to face off DBacks. Marte is just a downgrade from Paul Goldy.
Trzn source?
When Rosenberg started talking............I SHUT OFF THE VIDEO
Who's rosenberger!!
Who's rosenberger!!
Who's watching this after Bloom was fired?????
Thank you Boston!
As a dodgers fan I'm going to say this right now. I believe the Yankees and the dodgers are the two best teams in baseball. We will see y'all at the pennant!
As a Dodger fan, I’m shocked too! How do you let a guy like him EVER leave??? Pay him whatever!!!
Chaim bloom needs to be fired. Consider this a gift LA. I’m still pissed about this
@@Lemon-yp9bg I am too. But Verdugo has been very good.
@@Lemon-yp9bg does he? lmfao
@@peterfalkson6730 ok give me credit no one expected that team to go that far
For those of you complaining about Betts turning down $300 Million for 10 years, this should explain it:
1. Mookie Betts had 4 gold gloves, an MVP, 3 silver sluggers and is a 4x all star (career BA of .301). He has a career WAR of 42.0 after 6 seasons. Mike Trout had a WAR of 47.5 after his first 6 season. What Im trying to say is the second best player in all of baseball is Mookie Betts. If Mike Trout got 12 year at $430 Why would Betts take a 10-12 year contract worth $300?
2. To put this into perspective, Manny Machado got 10 yrs @$300 and Harper got 13 yrs @ $330. Betts has better numbers and accolades than both players and hes a year younger with two less seasons under his belt. He also has a better WAR than both players. You are low-balling the second best player in the league especially when there are players out there would arent in that stratosphere getting paid. i would have started at $360 and go from there.
3. If this still doesnt make sense, Think of it like this. Jeff Bezos of Amazon is the richest man in the world with $114 Billion, Bill Gates is the second richest with $106 Billion, Next is Warren Buffet at $80 billion and Mark Zuckerberg at $69 Billion. Mike Trout and Mookie Betts are Jeff and Bill and then there is everyone else.
If I know I can get 400 million, of course I'm turning down 300. EVERYONE would. People are so silly.
Here’s a baseball secret....
Hitters don’t impact the game as much as you think they do. Pitchers do. Octobers highlight this fact but we still love the long-ball too much.
Great pitching is only good for a few innings then the reliever comes in and gets taken for a ride by great hitters
David assuming every game is a comeback win?
Red Sox will hold fourth place in the A.L East for the next 5-8 seasons. I love it.
916mw they could win the World Series 3 more times this decade
@@Frankieefootballmundial Dream on bruh that ain't happening
Hopefully Forever.
Fuck boston.
Red Sox can make the WS in 2024 but will lose to the Mets.
Get off the acid. This will be the decade that will be dominated by Yankees-Dodgers,but pulling,for my Yankees of course.
I am a 15 year old Red Sox fan. I am in love with Mookie Betts. They got it exactly right.
Josh Cohen by giving away the 2 best player in the game for absolutely nothing? Stay 15.
I ❤ New York & Los Angeles California baby!!!
As a Yankees fan I really want a Dodgers VS yankees world series
@@wack... Me too
Trzn when was this proven?
Trzn really? Because Bellinger sure didn’t seem like it. There were only “concerns” and not actual evidence. Teams have been accused all the time and these allegations mean nothing. If it were true the dodger players would not have said what they did because if it was discovered that they did the same they would look really bad. The players that keep silent though...
@@wack... That'll work
"A fifth round draft pick - nothing that really moves the needle." Well, Mookie Betts was a 5th round draft pick, just saying lol
And for every 5th round Mookie story there are 1000+ stories of 5th round guys that go nowhere. But ok boomer.
@@squitestubez ok pea-for-brains
@@SenorTortas lmao. Learn how the draft works, sport. The numbers don't lie. Anything under the first 3 rounds has a less than 10% chance of ever making it. Anyone after the 10 round? A less than 1% chance. It happens, but it doesn't happen often.
you see what you just said there Don ppl get on the NYY for doing the exact same thing BOS does. you spend to get better the perception when we do it we buy championships MF BOS is doing the exact same thing. it's no different than what we do the hypocrisy in that is appaling .
This is a Yankee channel and Kay gets paid by the Yankees.
@@joseurena3640 what exactly that has to do with my comment? your comment has no relevance to what i said. smh
@@johnpestano22 my bad, I misread and thought you were saying that the talk show hosts were being hypocritical
@@joseurena3640 no not at all i was just pointing out Don's point of BOS spending and we do the same. so idk why we get hate for spending bc BOS does it. their a big market when your a big market your supposed to spend.
@@johnpestano22 Oh that envy is wild! It's not that the Yankees players are good iT's jUsT tHaT tHeY maKe So MuCh MoNeY. I'm a Mets fan and the team spends too, just not well.
Just a year later to remind Red Sox fans of pain🤣
as a dodgers fan I'm stoked, I think the only reason red sox can be upset about is the return they got for Mookie, Yes there was some salary dump with price attached but still to only get back verdugo and a prospect is insane
Hurry up baseball season.
Idk, it’s a lil bittersweet. I was a little excited about having the Yankees Red Sox rivalry back for the next 10 years. Oh well
🙌🔥🔥✈ "Rich people don't like Paying Taxes" -MK 🤣😭✌💯
The politicians like Sanders create laws to avoid paying taxes. Pelosi gets agricultural tax exemption on her $120 mill ranch/vineyard,gets agricultural subsidies on her crops,uses cheap Mexican labor,gets tax return thanks to the schedule F IRS forms but wants you to pay more. If you think I'm lying about her,why won't she ever release her tax returns.
Chris Tyler trump has never paid any taxes is his life
CNN founder & former Braves owner Ted Turner owns 1.2 mill acres of land,gets more money in tax breaks for agriculture than pays in. Just a big money making scheme. Same with Warren Buffett who's currently profited over $50 mill annually by installing solar farms with government grants created by Obama,same with Bezos. It's all about the $$$$ the government likes to piss away.
This is compensation for the cheating 😂😂
Does he come with custom redsox applewatch?
What kind of manager does Boston get after dumping their best player?
BOS doesn't have a chance after sanctions. Betts didn't wanna be buried with that team since platers don't get punished directly, he can get out and be scot free.
Bobby valentine again. Worked great the first time
Tampa is going to be tuff in the division. socks are done
"The Twins send a 103 mph reliever.... who throws 103" WELL SHIT I THOUGHT HE THREW 100 OUT 3 THROWS THANKS FOR CLEARING THAT UP GENIUS
It pisses me off when people act short sighted by saying John Henry is a billionaire so he should just pay. The red Sox payroll even after letting Holt Porcello and every single free agent walk except for Moreland was at 240 million. Over the highest tax threshold for the 3rd consecutive year. Henry might have paid the tax and kept it there but the team didn't have any value to show for that kind of money. There's no bullpen, no backup catcher after Leon trade, no outfield depth somehow mookie Bradley or benintendi never got hurt, no notable 2nd baseman and NO FARM SYSTEM. No prospects so you can't improve the team by trades. If you spend your payroll goes up to 250-260 million yeah Henry can afford it but so can the dodgers and Yankees. Why the fuck do those teams try staying fiscally responsible ? Because it's smart you have payroll flexibility red Sox have none of that. Many holes in the team with a payroll at 240 and no farm system. This is mainly on one person and his name is Dave Dombrowski the man has gutted this team for one championship and is now gonna enjoy life.
Yash yep...they spend an obscene amount and have won 4 times in 15 years. Fans/Reporters feel entitled to 100% of a teams revenue stream. Plus if the owner is rich enough they want him to write checks out of his personal account. This despite the fact that effectively 100% of major position player FA deals turn out poorly. And it’s not just 1-2 years at the end. It’s often 70 % of the deal or more.
@@33moneyball he had David price Porcello Martinez eovaldi sale bogaerts on long term contracts. And somehow he's getting blamed. I'd understand if there were 3-4 other teams who had a payroll over 230 million but there are none. A team can't keep doing that for 2-3 years. Kay as well being smart by saying rich people don't like paying taxes. It's not just the tax they're missing out on first round pricks ffs. Red Sox can't trade their best players easily coz they're on absurd amount of money every year they're over the threshold they're losing draft picks. What is Henry supposed to do ? Wave a magic wand and make everything fine. I hate letting mookie go but if you do stupid things you have to deal with the consequences. Dombrowski nicely got himself fired leaving red Sox fans to suffer
No one understands how big of a mistake this is for the Dodgers. Simply put, the Dodgers were gonna make the postseason whether you like it or not. However, their weaknesses have always been the bullpen. By not making a move for the pen, it's gonna be the same old story for the Dodgers. Dave Roberts blows a lead by making a mistake in the pen. The Dodgers offense doesn't come through in the late innings. Another team wins the playoff series. Done.
TheAlchemic1 valid argument on your end. But our offense and management has been at fault in the last postseason. Getting betts is the bold bold move to get that batter with the eagle eye with the bear swinging power to keep our offense going. If this gets us our title than it was all worth it. Our window is closing..
Bullpen has been a problem but it's been revitalize with treinen Nelson and wood can come out of the pen. Also bullpen pieces can be picked up at the deadline. They DFAd poor performers like chagias, Floro, and Garcia. I see the Dodger pen being a major improvement this year
umm only reason astros and redsox were/ are good was cause they cheated................
@@jacobbxd astros redsox cheated............................... to win
@@AhhhhSHITitsDavey redsox astros cheated.................. to win
Dodgers better win a World Series
Sale, Devers, Bogaerts, JD Martinez are all All-Star caliber players. The Red Sox are not tanking. They'll be competing for WC
KomodoDojo thank you everyone is counting them out already but I still think they can still compete
@@MadKingTylor I don't get the dismissiveness. Sale had an off year and Eovaldi was injured. If both guys are healthy and pitch well, the sox will have plenty of pop to drive in runs.
This was the deal for letting them cheat in the 2018 series.
they didn't cheat in 2018 tho
The only one who actually knows baseball is Michael Kay. I’m a Sox fan the other guys don’t know their ass from their elbow
It's obvious!
the downside of this news Pax had surgery today to repair something i read on twitter. he will be out for 3-4 months so Monty will get the rotation spot.
I saw that!! This dude is a mess. He's never going to be healthy. He's starting to make Troy Tulo look like he was as reliable as Cal Ripken JR. If they don't put Monty to take his spot I'm going to be livid!!!
As a die hard dodger fan, I really dont know how to feel about this trade. Yes Mookie Betts is amazing but then again it's only one year and he wants to be a free agent. I feel like this is only totally worth it IF Mookie signs with the Dodgers after 2020, which is unlikely.
Can't wait for Sanchez to face Price in the WS.
considering tampa is gonna play 40 games in montreal...i'm guessing they're not a threat lmao.
ryan phillips what are you talking about that idea has been scrapped
aww really they got rid of it? could they not move enough tickets in montreal or somethin?
ryan phillips from what articles I’ve seen there still floating the idea but realistically it ain’t gonna happen besides Montreal is a hockey town not a baseball town
As a respectable redsox fan that lives in nyc. It was the right move to make long term. We weren’t winning with betts in the team or without. You can make a case that this philosophy works because in the span of 20 years they have gotten 4 chips.
by cheating
I do remember them winning 16-1 in yankee stadium and winning the next game also in the same stadium or am I wrong? cortezmauricio56
@@Jeffrey_Torres718 cheating is cheating
MLB has yet to come out and say we cheated in the postseason or haven’t even finished there investigation. cortezmauricio56
@@mauricortez702 the red sox didn't cheat thats the really awkward thing, and nothing was done in the playoffs, facts are facts, stop being salty because shiterino was throwing meatballs
very well broken down....oh and "rich ppl don't like paying taxes." Shocking!
As much as I like pedroia he's only played 10 games in the last 2 years that 10 out of 324 games. That's also $13 million ish. It's about time for them to chat and figure out if he's going to retire or get released. It's almost time to report to camp he needs to make a decision.
That's a guaranteed contract unless he willingly retires and forgoes the money and I don't think that is happening.
Isn’t it odd that Betts was the MVP the year that the Red Sox were blamed for cheating? Isn’t it odd that Altuve won the MVP award the year they admittedly cheated? 🤔
What are you even getting at? The (alleged, at least in the case of the Red Sox) cheating happened in the playoffs.
@@GodInHisPrime Where can your information found at? Please share the link that will verify and help us all understand how the alleged cheating was limited to the playoffs. And if it were limited to the playoffs, why wait until October to try something so risky. Usually we practice and work kinks out before it is actually done in real-time.
@@PJH4101 You can't possibly be suggesting that these guys are only good when their teams are cheating; they are clearly extremely talented. They both have posted multiple MVP-worthy seasons. Unfortunately for them, Mike Trout (and each other) exists
How many World Series did nyy win because of all the players using ped’s?
@@georgemoody3531 just imagine PED's and knowing the pitch... By the way show me how a team of PED users that won it all. I can without a doubt show you a team of admitted cheaters who won it all in 2017.
Rays can trade at the deadline due to them having a very good farm system but would they be willing to get guys with big contracts is the question
Bosox can't even pay for their homegrown superstar? Sad! So sick ! Being a Dodgers fan i'm loving it.
JD Martinez, Chris Sale, David Price, Rick Porcello, Xander Bogaerts. Red Sox haven't spent money? What sport are you watching? They just didn't want to spend $400M on a single player, or let it ride and have Mookie walk for a Comp pick. I don't blame them for moving him
Red Sox and spurs fan here, Mookie has been my favorite player here since David Ortiz retired and I hate the Sox for this move. I still love and will root for mookie but my anger falls with the Red Sox on this one. Kawhi leaving was different because he wanted to leave and acted very unprofessional when leaving San Antonio.
Why didn't they use his last years rankings. Or rankings from the past three years. They picked two years of stats, because that includes his MVP season, but not his .264 year. Betts feasts on bad pitching, but based on his .227 avg, 1 HR, and 4 RBI's in his playoff career, good pitching eats him up. He also lacks opposite field power. For a guy that is asking for Mike Trout type money, he is nowhere near the talent that Trout is.
Since Price has left the Rays the yankees have dominated him. I look forward to a Yankees vs Dodgers world series because great pitching usually always beats great hitting in the playoffs. Yankees will have Cole, Sevy, Tanaka who dominated in the playoffs, and even Paxton if they need a 4th starter. Good luck to whatever N.L. team who makes it.
Matt Victorella WHOEVER NL TEAMS MAKE IT???? Bro YOU DO REALIZE THE DODGERS STARTING PITCHING doesnt depend on KERSHAW OR PRICE and they can still make another blockbuster trade or two before the deadline.... rid u miss their batting line up. Calm down and you better hope the Yankess make it to the dance.
@@nordicblood8470 atrocious English and if you actually watched baseball you would know the Yankees won 103 games last year while being one the most injured teams in MLB history. They're players are entering their primes and they just signed Cole who is in his Prime/Apex. The Yankees are clearly the best team in baseball and should be prohibited favorites.
H Cab You have your opinion on baseball... atrocious ENGLISH??? Go fuck yourself. There you can correct and retract my idiomatic expression.
@@nordicblood8470 Yes I said atrocious you subhuman.
This just says the Red Sox dont think they can beat the Yankees , so we might as well have a fire sale and recoup some loot.
An angle that people don't seem to be considering. Because the Sox traded Price along with Betts, they are in a better position to resign Betts after 2020. If they're paying half of Price's contract, they could actually take it up the ass and give in to Betts' $42 million salary demand next year and still be $4 million BETTER OFF than they would have been paying Mookie $30 million while holding onto Price. So this trade actually puts them in a better position to resign Betts AND gets them under the tax threshold. Not only that, but Betts' contract value could go down after playing a year away from the friendly confines of Fenway and in the spacious LA park. This deal is starting to look better and better for the Sox the more I look at it.
Threshold? Is that another word for Salary Cap?
Rich people don’t like paying taxes? Nobody likes paying taxes Michael hahaha!
mookie became great when cora brought his cheating ways to beantown.
Must be the cali smog...Mookie was already great ...Dummy!
@@43Magicman But in 2018 he had an OPS of 1.078, a .346 batting average and won the MVP. Tell what other year did Betts had an OPS over 1.000 and a batting average close to .346? Did he benefited from the cheating in 2018 to win the MVP?
Why Alex Verdugo why Kenta Maeda ?I don't get it seriously guys I'm very amazed
What is the third guy doing?
i want Angels vs Yankees in the postseason. i need to see Mike trout on the biggest game
The problem for the Angels is the lack of management
The Yankees would destroy them. They have no starting pitching. Who's even their ace? Ohtani coming off TJ surgery and most likely be on an innings limit because of it?
They'd get swept easily by the Yankees in the playoffs.
@@saygoodnighttothebadguy we have a good record against the yankees in the post season. Check 2002
@@danny12threes6 Those were the Mike Scioscia led Angels teams that always gave the Yankees fits. Reason being is they were aggressive on the basepaths and had a ton of good contact hitters to go along with a dynamic bullpen. This current Angel team is nowhere close to that team. Plus we got revenge by smashing them in the 2009 ALCS on our way to a World Series Championship.
There will be 4 good teams coming out of the AL East. Yankees obviously the favorite. But boston will still be good and Tampa too and dont sleep on toronto
@Harry Engel they could challenge it. One thing for sure, the Orioles pitching got worse over the offseason, with Bundy leaving. And their offense got worse too since Villar left! But they did upgrade significantly at short adding Iglesias over richie Martin. .. they went 54-108 last year. I'll guess they go 48 - 114 this year!
Mookie Belts traded to LA wow WTF is Boston doing ????
They trigger their new curse
Dodgers will win another division title, maybe go all the way to the world series.... But Roberts will find a way not to win. Good luck to Verdugo in Boston, if Healthy he can help the sox...
Smh much be nice to have major market team #cubs fan
The Gonzalez/Crawford trade didn't boost Boston even a tiny bit. The Dodgers emptied their trash can on the Redsox, which shows how keen they were to get rid of Crawford. None of the 5 guys traded by the Dodgers turned into a long term quality Red Sox player. Most wound up in the minors. Boston's 2013 win had nothing to do with that trade.
The point of the trade was to have Dodgers bail Boston out of two bad contracts which they did. They're attempting to do the same here. That being said, you're right. The 2013 championship had a lot more to do with Detroit's atrocious bullpen blowing games 2 and 6 of the ALCS which ultimately cost them a pennant.
We're still the favorites to win the WS, but the haters (especially the cocky Astros fans) will continue to say we have no chance.
@@hermunkulus I was surprised that Detroit lost that series. They had both Verlander and Scherzer pitching.
It’s like Saquon Barkley. Great player but one on a team going nowhere at the minute so he will walk in free agency. Boston is a similar situation. They had their success and now they are experiencing what the Yankees went through a couple of years back, ageing guys who are paid for what they were rather than what they are.
This trade was about Price rather than Betts. Bottom line is they needed to shift the big contracts and the cost of that was Betts, either do something now and get a little or stand still and get nothing.
Sucks if you’re a Red Sox fan but ultimately it was the right thing to do.
John Henry only cares about his football club Liverpool FC now. I can't blame him... his team is the biggest in the world at the moment and can make them more money in the future since it's the biggest sport in the world.
Doesn't matter Astros will cheat again and win another World Series
William Durazo there time for going to the World Series are done
Not if Boston outcheats them agan.
pretty sure Mookie looked at the long view and didn't want to play the rest of his career in Boston. He wanted out and got lucky and landed in LA.
Why’d he want out
No player is worth more than $300 million
If a player is worth more than that, I think every person working any kind of job full-time, all the way down to Wal-Mart or McDonalds, should make enough money to pay for the basic lineup of bills each month. Or the additional staff members in our public schools (paras, substitute teachers, etc) who are considered the special people who work in our schools. They sure don't make money like they are doing anything special.
yeah but astros redsox were only good cause they cheated, wouldnt be surprised if yankees cheat to
@@torrjpct You said it perfectly
Any employee's worth is in some way based on the amount of money they help produce for the employer... if the team makes 600 million in revenue every year, then paying something like $420 million for 12 years (35 million per year) for one of the best players in baseball isn't crazy financially. That player would be making just under 6% of the total team revenue.... which is a lot, but not insane considering the amount of skill required to play the game of baseball. MLB players are not "replaceable" unlike most professions where there are millions of other people who could take your spot without significantly compromising performance. So if the owners want to keep producing $600 million products on the field, they will pay players a lot to do so.... and as long as fans continue to pay top dollar for MLB entertainment, the owners will continue to have an incentive to pay players lots of money. That's how the world works: it's not based on what jobs are important or anything of that nature. Society and jobs are structured to make monetary sense... not to be ethically sound.
Judge is.
Big mistake for dodgers, Betts stats inflated from the green monster and had his best year mvp from the cheating year with the apple watch.
Big mistake how? They gave up a toaster strudel and some strawberry pez for Mookie Betts and David Price.
The tax arguement that rich people dont like paying taxes first off NO ONE likes paying taxes and 12 million is another's player salary so essentially you are paying a extra player with no return it's simple
Mookie Betts has nice stats for the past 2 years indeed. Coïncide with the tenure of Alex Cora BTW. Just saying!
“Very Rich People don’t pay as much as they should.”
Very rich people pay 80% of taxes, so yeah,they do.
I think what he meant by that is that rich people look for ways around taxes. Ultimately they still do pay a lot in taxes but they find ways to avoid paying as much as they theoretically should
Way to miss the fucking point, guy
That's the damn point. The richer you are the more taxes you're supposed to pay, therefore rich people try to find ways to avoid taxes.
"outrage" is when you don't know its coming......cmon guys.
The deal fell through on the Twins part
Boston has a tainted World Series title (same as Houston)
2017 was tainted, 2018 wasn't
Cora had to go and the punishments were going to hurt them. It's a sad, mixed deal. At least their fans aren't in denial about the whole cheating fiasco, unlike a certain other teams fans.
Pretty sure Michael Kay is a “really rich” dude
He's not a billionaire CEO of a company though. He still pays the same taxes that we do
You've missed the point.
He’s billions of times closer to us than any of the people he mentioned. There’s a spectrum.
Go BRAVES.......
NYY SIGN COLE- "We just secured 2020 world series, no one can stop us!"⚾️
LAD- "HOLD MY FUNGO!"🏑
It would be ironic that Betts would be suspended for the '17' cheating scandal when it was the Dodgers who were on the short end of being cheated against and then they ultimately get punished for losing Betts.
If Houston Asstros players were not suspended its highly unlikely Betts will be...
And the Yankees win again!
if yankees win then theyl cheat somehow to since thats how AL teams roll to be good
Not with Paxton hurt,with Sanchez always out to groin.. Rays taking East with Morton,Glasgow and Snell leading the way vs Cole
Chris Tyler Tampa will be good, looking forward to my first trip to the trop....I mean Yankee Stadium south.
Chris Tyler you’re fucking delusional lol
@@mauricortez702 HORSESHIT!
David Price out of the division is 2 or 3 fewer wins for the Yanks handed to them from the Sox.
Sox made a great move. Example- Nats DIDNT pay Harper and try won it all. You have to get guys that come up for club control. Mookie didn't want 300mill, that's stupid, you want 420mill!!! That's stupid as hell. Not worth it. We got a guy for 7yrs that throws 103, this outfielder is dam good, we control him 6yrs. What did you wanna do? Watch Mookie walk away with nothing? Oh a shitty draft pick. Price gets to much, always hurt, and the Yanks Own his ass. Thank you for 2018 Price. He may do ok in the NL but will get hurt, won't do much,,, good move Sox. It's not about a luxury tax, now we're under it, now we can make a splash next year! Let's go boys
Wow
Trade verdugo for one year of betts. Seems dumb on LA’s part to me.
Jsports2012 you don’t think the dodgers are gonna try to pay Betts?
Jsports2012 verdugo wasn’t consistent
james david manning - maybe but the Red Sox concern was that Betts seemed dedicated to testing the free agent market. If he does that, the Dodgers really aren’t much better off than if they just waited out the year and bid for him WITHOUT losing Verdugo.
victor - maybe you’re right but he’s young and rated as one of LA’s better young players.
Blame JD Martinez for not opting out
He turned down $300 millions for 10 years??????? He don't deserved to be called a Red Sox. And I'm a Yankee fan. Robinson Cano part 2
No disrepsect but i think you need to think this one through (i am not a Red Sox or Yankees fan).
1. Mookie Betts had 4 gold gloves, an MVP, 3 silver sluggers and is a 4x all star (career BA of .301). He has a career WAR of 42.0 after 6 seasons. Mike Trout had a WAR of 47.5 after his first 6 season. What Im trying to say is the second best player in all of baseball is Mookie Betts. If Mike Trout got 12 year at $430 Why would Betts take a 10-12 year contract worth $300?
2. To put this into perspective, Manny Machado got 10 yrs @$300 and Harper got 13 yrs @ $330. Betts has better numbers and accolades than both players and hes a year younger with two less seasons under his belt. He also has a better WAR than both players. You are low-balling the second best player in the league especially when there are players out there would arent in that stratosphere getting paid. i would have started at $360 and go from there.
3. If this still doesnt make sense, Think of it like this. Jeff Bezos of Amazon is the richest man in the world with $114 Billion, Bill Gates is the second richest with $106 Billion, Next is Warren Buffet at $80 billion and Mark Zuckerberg at $69 Billion. Mike Trout and Mookie Betts are Jeff and Bill and then there is everyone else.
SERIOUSLY. Why would Boston make this trade?
Michael Rotonda A MISCALCULATION ON THEIR PART. It happens
How much disrespect a team has for one player can't be duplicated anywhere else but in Boston. I hate to bring the race card out, but Mookie and Price were not the type of players Boston appreciates. From Price being called the N-word in Fenway to Celtics players being slurred at in the Garden. I bet David Price & Mookie Betts both feel relieved to be out of there.
@Patrick Ryan so, the racial slurs never happened in Fenway and fans weren't escorted and banned for life? Warnings to other fans never happened? I know you can't generalize these actions based on a few idiots, and I am sorry for doing that. Boston is a great city with some of the nicest people.
@Patrick Ryan critical thinking is a 1990's approach to problem solving. Emotional intelligence is something you may need to bone up and study buddy. Let's look at the emotional side of your argument. 1a. It happens everywhere, so Boston fans are off the hook. 1b. Yankees fans are just as bad as Red Sox fans when you look at the Deshields incident. a-b) Normalizes unacceptable behavior of pastimes and equivocating them with what we know today is a sweeping statement to win an argument. 2017, MLB investigated the Red Sox for this. JS. apnews.com/3431df69680943ac8086d5b1acc3a3a7/MLB-reviews-security-at-all-parks-after-Fenway-racial-slurs
Way too many years are given to players. Any player breaks down at 35 and later.
Exactly. No one deserves those big contracts The Sox had to stay under the luxury tax and so did the angels in which the joc trade did not happen. Lets not ignore the facts that the angels payroll is massive this year.
Baseball is so broken right now
I’ll laugh my ass off if both of these teams fail in the postseason.Hopefully those teams who beat them will be investigated for sign stealing.
Should've gotten more out of this trade for Red Sox. It's a bad way to start rebuilding. Will they lose Martinez and Bogaerts next?
JD maybe, but Xander and Devers stay
If Sale is still hurt, the Red Sox might have the worst rotation in baseball...
Absolutely no respect given to Oakland.
Oakland’s not even gonna finish ahead of the Angels lol
Klé D Angels are going to be the new 19 Phillies
Good offense but that rotation blows my dude
Why?
Sam S No it does not. You’ll see what Luzardo and Puk can do this year
Mookie was a 275 hitter on the road and a 314 hitter at home. I think the Red Sox knew, with all the cheating for the title in 2018, that his performance was impacted by it.
Hahaha Boston is done.
That Guy83 Boston is actually gonna be really good this year
Mookie batted 295 last season and verdugo batted 294. They are the same player for way different prices. And David price was terrible. The Red Sox getting rid of him only decreased their payroll to help them out.
Bogey 777 like they were last year lmao. They are trash.
That Guy83 what team are you a fan of the Yankeess?
Bogey 777 Does not matter what team I pull for.
Redsox fan?????
I'm sure that paying taxes bother everyone Mike, but keep pretending you arent making millions of dollars a year yourself, not that there is anything wrong with that
The Dodgers are just a pay to win team and it's annoying... They breeze through the regular season just to choke in the post season.
Yeah, about that, last postseason (2019) the dodgers team was the most homegrown team in the playoffs. That’s growth not buying.
They got more Boston agents that killed them. Lakers always knew how not to trust those from Boston.
Did cheating help Bett's stats? I hope not as a Dodger fan. Hope he has his greatest year ever. If he leaves after delivering greatness that's fine.
Yes but the players have been cheating so who says really how good are they really.
hey are as good as they have been
This year all eyes are watching o now we will see who is actually OOspot or great.
Maybe the Red Sox are dumbing rather than love the cheating players.