Carl Crawford would have been near the top of any historic Sox albatross list had we not dumped him on the Dodgers.
We also lessened the Price hit by doing the same, and his opt out of 2020 helped, too.
In terms of what we ended up paying, and one could argue we "paid" AGon to rid ourselves of CC, out top albatross list might be...
1. Sale extension (still pending)
2. Pablito
3. Castillo (lucky no luxury tax hits)
4. HRam
5. Pedroia (2014 extension)
6. Crawford
7. Renteria (ended up spending about $30M for one season)