The Yankees thought they stole one from the Sox when they signed him. LOL! What a waste of $153 million dollars. HUGE mistake by Cashman.
The Yankees thought they stole one from the Sox when they signed him. LOL! What a waste of $153 million dollars. HUGE mistake by Cashman.
He was one of my favorite Redsox when he signed over there .Sad what he became
That's the final $26 million payment on a $153 million bill for Jacoby Ellsbury after the Yankees slipped under the luxury tax threshold.
The Red Sox have exceeded the luxury tax threshold in consecutive years in paying off the entire $183 million bill for Hanley Ramirez and Pablo Sandoval. In that sense the Sox are still paying in an effort to reset the luxury tax calculation.
Sox got Michael Kopech with draft pick compensation for Ellsbury. That worked out.
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
So, does that mean the Crawford dump trade was bad for BOS?
AGon 9.4 WAR
Crawford 4.3 WAR
Punto 1.5 WAR
Beckett 0.6 WAR
15.8 Total (No rings for LAD)
Napoli 5.5
Victorino 4.9
Dempster 0.5
Rubby de la Rosa 0.2
Allen Webster -0.3
10.8 Total (1 ring for BOS)
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
The Dodger front office probably has not lost sleep over that trade as the Dodgers have won seven straight division titles (without capturing a World Series crown).
The fWAR standings in the seven full seasons since the trade:
https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.as...date=&enddate=
... and the overall won-loss standings:
https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.as...12-31&sort=2,d
The whole point of this thread is that the Sox were right for letting Ellsbury go and the Yankees were wrong for signing him him. That is all. Talking about other moves made after that by either team is irrelevant to the fact that sometimes teams have to let guys go and not over pay them based on what they have done in the past. The BB method.
i always preferred coco crisp anyways....
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