SF would hang up the phone real quick. You'd have to empty the farm with Bogaerts, Owens, Cecchini, Barnes and JBJ. They might not even do that trade.
Bumgarner is a 24 year old ace. They have no incentive to move him.
Pedroia is a better all around player than Ells and is a team leader. All Ells does is provide speed and hit for average. His defense is not that good and he'll never get that 2011 power back.
$2M is important for luxury tax purposes. $2M over 5 years is $10M. I'm sure the Sox could find something better to do with that money than just give it away or set it on fire.
Is Lavs' bat good enough for 1b?
I think the most likely outcome is a FA. Internal options are WMB, Cecchini, Brentz and even Nava (just need RH platoon).
You and I are enemies. There is little about that abortion that is good. It goes 2 > 1 > 4 > 5 and 3 never happened.
You probable like the Air Buddies movies as well?