I Have a Bad Feeling
Jim Bowden of THE ATHLETIC said this about the Dodgers trade for Mookie Betts and David Price: The Dodgers made one of the most lopsided trades for a superstar player in baseball history. They gave up only two players from their major-league roster and zero prospects from their farm system to land one of the top five position players in the game in Mookie Betts along with veteran starter David
Jim Bowden of THE ATHLETIC said this about the Dodgers trade for Mookie Betts and David Price:
“The Dodgers made one of the most lopsided trades for a superstar player in baseball history. They gave up only two players from their major-league roster and zero prospects from their farm system to land one of the top five position players in the game in Mookie Betts along with veteran starter David Price, and also got the Red Sox to pay a significant chunk of Price’s salary.”
Boston Media is crucifying the Red Sox and John Henry (Red Sox Owner) who is a very, very egotistical man (to say nothing of being a moron), and they are feeling the heat. The Boston Herald is calling for the Red Sox to rescind the deal. Heres what the Boston Herald said:
The trade is on hold, according to Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic, because after viewing the medical reports of Twins beefy right-handed pitching prospect Brusdar Graterol, the Red Sox “viewed him more as a reliever than a starter” and therefore “might ask for an additional player and/or money to bridge the gap.”
In other words, Graterol is damaged goods. Better idea than asking for another player or more money to go toward David Price’s contract: Call the whole thing off. Now. And don’t look back. View this as a gift from the heavens and keep Mookie in a Red Sox uniform for as long as possible, preferably for the next 10 years.
If that is what the Scumbag John Henry and the Red Sox are doing, then John Henry and Chiam Bloom and whoever else is involved need to go the way of Alex Cora and get a job outside of baseball. This is bullcrap. Everyone in the free world knows that Greaterol has arm and shoulder issues. Even Ray Charles can see it.
You can’t rescind or renege on a deal at the final second… just because of public outrage. Stick to your word… unless you are damn liars! Well, it has been established that evidently the Red Sox are liars and cheaters! They obviously cannot be trusted.
It appears to me that if this is nor resolved RIGHT NOW, both the Red Sox and Angels deals are about to totally unravel. It’s not the end of the world, but it is ugly. Can Manfred get involved? I doubt it. If I were Andrew Friedman, I would give Bloom until Noon EDT to work it out or the trades are rescinded.
Never trust cheaters! I have I am wrong… but this smells bad! Very bad!
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Discussion (77)
Disagree, not disagreeable
I just heard from a credible source that John Henry said to “Stop the deal.”
Manfred should relegate the RedSox to AA.
What a bunch of _________________________!
Two words why they are damn liars:
John Henry.
He’s the same kind of scumbag as Trump.
… and I’m a Republican.
The result will prove or disprove it!
Sorry Son-in-Law and Bluto but the Red Sox are cheaters and scumbags.
An excellent analysis from the Boston perspective.
Open on www.bostonsportssyndicate.comhttps://www.bostonsportssyndicate.com/2020/02/the-red-sox-have-most-to-lose-if-this.htmlApparently the whole league is as well.
I agree with Mark and AC.
This stinks to high heaven.
It seams obvious now that the Dodgers are now in a position where they may have to use prospects from the Joc trade w/Angels to send to Boston to make the deal happen. But if Boston just wants to weasel out of the deal, they can. The excuse they are throwing around doesn’t remotely pass the smell test. If arm chair scouts like us knew the Twins were sending over a future bullpen piece, we are to believe a team like Boston didn’t know that? I think the Boston GM did his job and is now being asked to go back on his word. Probably being put into an impossible situation.
At this point, I think we are 50/50. Might end up with a pissed off Verdugo and Joc back with the team. Which I’m fine with. The question is, will they be?
If this deal falls through, is it worth completing the Minnesota side of the trade? Brusdar Graterol has a nasty fastball and could turn into a good/great relief pitcher. Of course it won’t matter if his arm falls off.
And I was hoping Arizona would sign Puig and reunite him with Bumgarner!
Red Sox Rumors: BOS Wants Top-10 Twins Prospect to Finish Mookie Betts Trade
Open on bleacherreport.comhttps://bleacherreport.com/articles/2875273-red-sox-rumors-bos-wants-top-10-twins-prospect-to-finish-mookie-betts-tradeMLB rumors: Giants interested in signing Yasiel Puig in free agency
Open on www.nbcsports.comhttps://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/giants/mlb-rumors-giants-interested-signing-yasiel-puig-free-agencyA bunch of bull sh-t!! Look what the Dodgers gave up for Manny M
This is all a bunch of bull sh-t by ignorant fans. Compare what the Dodgers gave up for Manny Machado. B
This is a bunch of bull sh-t by crybabies. Just look at what Manny Machado was traded for. Alex Verdugo is a good player. Compare his first year in the majors with Mookie and throw away your tissues. A draft pick is highly unlikely to compare or be major league ready.
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Reminds me of the time McCourt reneged on a trade with the Yankees and Steinbrenner said he would never trade with the Dodgers again.
Sounds like the disagreement is between Boston and the Twinkies. Like William said, the Red Sox wanted the Graderol and the Dodgers obliged. Everyone in baseball knew this guy was projected as a relief pitcher except Boston. Give me a break. So unless his medicals looked far worse than expected this is all on Boston. Now, Bloom and Freidman are tight so like it’s been reported if Boston and Minnesota can’t resolve their differences the Dodgers and Red Sox will move on without them.
Dodgers defeat Joc in arbitration; better deal for the Angels
Dodgers win the arbitration hearing with Joc, he’ll get 7.75 mil instead of 9.5.
Maybe that means we get a slightly better prospect in the trade.
Let us hope that this deal does not fall through. It would be awful if it did. I don’t even know how it would be done. My question would be whether the Twins were a part of the deal at the outset; i.e., did all three teams agree? The Angels deal does not seem to be a part o f that ,but rather an adjoining piece. So the concern is whether somehow the Dodgers would be stuck with the lopsided (in LAA favor) Angels deal, would be stuck with the lopsided (in Minnesota’s favor) Twins deal, and would somehow end up with no Pederson, no Stripling, no Pages no Maeda, and would just have an injured Graterlol, and a now unhappy Verdugo. Or would the Minnesota part of the deal be coupled to the Boston deal, so that we would have an unhappy Maeda back, too?
I agree that this is ridiculous. Graterol was someone whom Boston wanted, and we made it happen for them. He was not ever our player, except on paper. Was Boston essentially saying to the Dodgers,, “We want Graterol, you can get him for us, but if we decide he has injury problems, it’s all off, and you guys deal with it?” It is very likely that much of the reason we made the Angels trade was to shed some salary after we got Betts. I do not think we would have made it without having gotten Betts. So what Boston appeared to be trying to do, to get out of a deal with various corollaries, is simply unacceptable. An d if it were to happen–and let us very much hope it does not-then Friedman would be deserving of some blame for making the three-team deal, and then the Angels deal, without being certain that Boston could not back out of it. It is one thing when your own player has some injury issues and you are vouching for him, it is another when it it is some other team’s player whom you have no way to check or even research, before sending him along. Bottom line, of course, is that it would be appallingly bad form for Boston to try to back out of this.
Well hopefully Mookie will join the Dodger family next year and not walk away like Meghan!
Did you all know that our very own Mookie Betts is a distant cousin of Meghan Markle?
We have some royalty in the house now!!
A great piece in The Athletic where they “compare” the Dodgers with a team amalgamated of the best players from the other NL West teams.
Here’s a snippet:
Final verdict
Dodgers fWAR: 54.1
Best of the Rest of the West fWAR: 51.7
The Tally
Diamondbacks 6 players
Rockies 6 players
Padres 4 —players
Giants 2 players
Dodgers vs. the West’s Best
The winner is: The Dodgers win it by the margin of one pretty good big-leaguer — an Eduardo Escobar, if you will. That’s what happens when you have two MVPs on your roster, Betts and Bellinger…
Hearing that the betts trade should be official today by Nightingal
Not the biggest fan of this blog post.
Bob Nightengale now reporting the trade will become official today.
The Dodgers aren’t trading Dustin May.
Mark Feinsand said the sides are “making progress” and an announcement could come as early as today. A writer covering the Twins reported that they expect the trade to go through.
We should all remember what someone once told Ned Colletti: if you listen to the fans and the media, you may end up sitting in the seats with them.