Red Sox Rumors: Boston’s Xander Bogaerts Contract Offer ‘Really Far’ From Padres Deal

The Boston Pink Sox reportedly weren’t keen to provide shortstop Xander Bogaerts anyplace close to the contract that the San Diego Padres have been this offseason.

ESPN’s Jeff Passan reported the Nationwide League West group agreed to an 11-year, $280 million cope with Bogaerts on Wednesday evening.

In line with Alex Speier of the Boston Globe, the Pink Sox remained “actually far” from that complete and didn’t even attain the $200 million mark when it got here to their supply.

That is one other blow for Pink Sox followers who watched their group commerce Mookie Betts to the Los Angeles Dodgers forward of the 2020 marketing campaign. ESPN’s Buster Olney instructed the lack of each Betts and Bogaerts means the group will doubtless should overpay for Rafael Devers to keep away from dropping a 3rd franchise cornerstone.

Devers is underneath contract by the 2023 season.

Boston’s loss is San Diego’s achieve, as Bogaerts was one of many foremost free-agency prizes this offseason after slashing .307/.377/.456 with 15 dwelling runs and 73 RBI final season. He can impression the sport in quite a lot of methods, together with along with his glove contemplating he posted a complete of 5 defensive runs saved above common as nicely, per FanGraphs.

He performed for the Pink Sox from 2013 by 2022 and was a five-time Silver Slugger and four-time All-Star choice.

The group gained the World Sequence in his rookie season and once more in 2018, that means he will probably be pursuing a 3rd championship throughout his first season within the Nationwide League.

And that would be the expectation for a Padres squad that reached the Nationwide League Championship Sequence a season in the past and has star energy that features Bogaerts, Juan Soto, Manny Machado and Fernando Tatís Jr. in the midst of probably the greatest lineups in all of baseball.

Battling the Los Angeles Dodgers within the Nationwide League West is not going to be straightforward for San Diego, nevertheless it additionally will not be straightforward for Pink Sox followers to look at Bogaerts and Betts competing for a possible World Sequence run on different groups after they misplaced yet one more star Wednesday.