Didn’t even make a connection between the petition and the trade but has it been confirmed which of the Red Sox players were involved? Carl Crawford it would be doubtful since he is recovering from Tommy John surgery and his participation would be the ultimate gall based on his performance in Boston.

Agreed.

It’s really about obtaining Gonzalez and hoping that Crawford can make a comeback next year for some top rated prospects and a good but non-power hitting first baseman.

Josh Becket has not been the consistently good pitcher over the years and since pitching is not the weakness of this club it appears the Red Sox demanded he be included in the deal as a salary dump in order for L.A. to get Adrian Gonzalez who will add tremendous punch to a poor run scoring team and who knows – a rejuvenated Carl Crawford for next year as well. Puento can’t hit but does give them a utility infielder for the moment.

The salary dumping certainly would also relieve the Sox from a lot of money they could re-invest into the team so it would not require them re-building from scratch. I think, however we have an idea where that saved money would go if this were the Mets instead. LOL

The difference with the Met situation, however, is that Boston indeed isn’t even “hanging around” like some put it about last year and that they are also following a collapse even worse than we had in 2007 and 2008.

On paper, it seems to help the Dodgers more, despite the financial burden which I think will be offset by their television revenue and sweetheart tax breaks they have with L.A. County. Gonzalez and Kemp are a dangerous one-two punch and again, if Crawford comes back, their hitting could possibly be deadly. And trading their prospects is exactly what Omar did to obtain Santana and others – though we must also remember few of the prospects Omar traded ever amounted to anything other than Joe Smith. That could be the risk for Boston.

The Dodgers are a mixture of young players and veterans with an average age of 30 so they have time to replenish their minor league system with draft picks.

Nobody is taking Beckett and Crawford PLUS giving valued prospects without a guy like AGone in the deal.

This deal still being unofficial to me says there are $ issues. That’s the whole reason for Boston to do it so I am curious to see what happens

Mets have Santana and bay coming off books after next year, if they wanted to get rid of them in a trade to dodgers for argument sake, wright would have to be in the deal, and I would do it in a heart beat. Of course most fans think it is absolutely crazy to trade wright, lol, he is a great piece at third but extremely movable, example, Anaheim needs a third baseman, a package of wright and whoever else for trumbo I would do in a heartbeat.

This year was never about winning, it stinks to see them play like they are, but the starting pitching looks very good, very affordable, and very young! They have trade chips, and 2 big contracts coming off books after next season, if they can rebuild that bullpen like Arizona did last year and the orioles did this year to go with that starting pitching they wil be very strong. They do need to add some players to the line up, but not the wrong ones, it does not have to be 20 mil a year players. It’s about how you spend not how much you spend. That’s why Philly is under 500, boston is trying to dump money, and Tampa and Oakland are fighting for wild card, Oakland and Tampa are forced to do it but that’s how it’s done. Difference with mets is they can speed up the process because they have a much bigger payroll. Next year and year after you will all see the huge improvement and division champ team of 2014.

If I was a Dodger fan, I wouldn’t be too interested or worried about the money they are going to spend. Look at their ticket prices for good seats compared to ours. Yes, some go for $80 but there are so many good seat locations that go for $25 or $30. And upper deck seats for less than $10! No Dynamic Pricing, no Gold, Bronze, Silver etc.

Television revenue enables them to keep the cost down – along with the many tax breaks they get from Los Angeles County.

My problem is the Red Sox were not out of it in July.

July 15th they were 1.5 games out
July 20th, 2 games
July 30th, 4 games and above .500

They had a better chance than the Mets in mid to late July. So why trade Ross?