Kolek planning to go pro
Looks like Mookie will be wearing Dodger blue. Huge addition.Edit: Price, Verdugo and a 3rd team involved.
Wow. The Twins traded their best pitching prospect for Kenta Maeda.
This trade kills me. Mookie was the most fun player to watch in my 50+ years of Red Sox fandom. Happy to be rid of Price, though I wonder how much of the contract the Red Sox will have to eat. I think Betts will not put up the same WAR numbers in LA. He was made for Fenway Park and his defensive WAR will take a big hit moving out of Fenway. That huge right field gave him an opportunity to run down and catch a lot of balls that aren't available elsewhere and the low wall allows him to rob an HR or 3 every year on what are actually somewhat routine catches.
Not sure Pederson stays...Angels want to bring up their stud minor leaguer and the other two outfield spots are taken. More trades ahead?
$$$ are more important than winning.
Really surprised the Twins weren't able to drag at least a lottery ticket prospect or two from LA's system for coughing up the quality of prospect Boston needed to pull the trigger. Maeda's contract is probably more valuable than his skill set.
That's definitely a factor, but not the only factor.Betts made it be known he was testing free agency next offseason and the Red Sox had reason to believe they weren't going to be able to keep him. So rather than get a late first-round pick in the 2021 draft as compensation, they bit the bullet and dealt him for a pair of more valuable assets.Bitter pill for Red Sox fans, but there was more to it than the team being cheap.
Burrows, I actually think the Twins did what they needed. The window to win is usually pretty short for small market teams. They needed someone to help them win now - and got it in Maeda. Graterol may or may not become a good pitcher in the Majors - I think he will end up being a closer - but he wasn't going to help Minny this year.For a big money team to give up Graterol for Maeda would be awful - for Minny it works. At least, IMHO.
It doesn't matter what the Twins do as they never breast the Yankees in October.
The window to win is usually pretty short for small market teams. They needed someone to help them win now - and got it in Maeda.
Down 1 w 5 seconds left. Doable.
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Picking your opponent could be kinda neat, but we absolutely don't need more playoff teams