Under your approach almost every players value decreases with decreasing years of control and/or age until retirement? Let’s just say that Beni was far from peak performance when he was traded and coming off the worst funk of his career. IMO, that got a bag of balls for him.
So the Red Sox got a 16 year old, a 17 year old, and a 23 year old A ball pitcher. Combined with what we already got that is some bag of garbage that we got in return for Benintendi. You get better toys with a Happy Meal.
Brandon Workman opts out of Minor League deal
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HOUSTON -- By leaving Triple-A Worcester on Tuesday, reliever Brandon Workman appears ready to exercise his opt-out clause and become a free agent if the Red Sox don’t call him up.
The Red Sox have 48 hours to either call Workman up or grant him free agency.
It will be
3 Division titles is unprecedented in my lifetime. And he inherited almost no pitching. I am a firm believer that pitching is what wins. Ben didn’t know pitching.