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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Two reasons not to trade Benny: 1. he's still a few years away from free agency so the exact kind of cost-efficient player needed on a club trying to lower payroll; and 2. he's still young enough with enough tools to rebound and develop into an impact player. Remember, he only played two years in college and basically one total season in the minors before being tabbed the number one prospect in baseball by both Baseball American and MLB.com.
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    Boston pitchers led the league in bases on balls issued. That's how bad the Red Sox were this season, and why their games took forever to watch.
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    Thanks, it wasn't so much a trade proposal as an example of the kind of package the Sox should ask for for someone entering his prime on a Hall of Fame trajectory. In other words, don't settle for Fred Lynn for the twilight of Joe Rudi and Frank Tanana right after he blew out his arm. Player value considerations include actual WAR and salary estimates (ie. the cost of Betts, the savings on pre-arb guys), but projected WAR for prospects is more dubious. And only the teams know how much they value a player's marketability... my 8-year-old owns six different Mookie shirts. In that regard, Price is definitely a negative; it doesn't matter if he has friends in the workplace if he devalues the company product in a waning industry via media spats, getting shelled by the Yankees and taking five minutes to throw every pitch.
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    Tony C in 67... I'm not sticking up for the Yankees, but the year they just had with the bench warmers coming in first was a rare feat. NY could sign Rendon and Cole and trade for Lindor and still not win 103 next year. Change comes fast: Boston led the league in runs scored and ops in '18, and then batters walked in '19...
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    Any Betts trade would have to bring back major league ready prospects. For example, to LA for Lux, Verdugo and May -- young players that could slot right into the lineup and rotation. Of course, the Dodgers would have to take Price, too (subsidized by Boston). This would be the quickest way to help lower payroll, change the culture a bit and stay competitive. The Sox can't afford to just take back 19 and 20-year olds that are a few years away from the bigs. We already have those guys.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I just don't see any club giving up multiple valuable prospects for one year of Betts... especially not a package that would equal the value of Mookie Betts in his prime in a salary drive season. His 2020 campaign just might put a team on top, and I'm hoping that team is the Red Sox. The first thing I'd do is find a way to dump Price -- eating half his contract and adding a minor leaguer with promise to sweeten the deal; his act has to be a downer for public relations and I almost think his actions (like calling a presser to dis Eck) are a deliberate way to force their hand.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Hi: new poster, old Sox fan here. Been reading this site all year, living/dying for Boston half a century. With the Yanks eliminated, it's a relief. Now most of us can relax and enjoy a World Series without the stress of rooting for or against personal heroes and demons. NY had a great, basically miraculous season overcoming all those injuries; it's too bad the majority of their fans view every year that they don't win the final game as a failure (young New England sports fans are probably growing up the same way, which is unfathomable to old timers). I'm not gloating about the 2018 ALCS -- the Sox beat Cole and Verlander, but let's not forget that Altuve and Correa were both hobbled and neither could hit with power...
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