How did the Dodgers get Mookie Betts and David Price?

On Feb. 4, 2020, the Los Angeles Dodgers agreed to a three-team trade with the Boston Red Sox and Minnesota Twins to acquire Mookie Betts and David Price. Having assumed perceived risk with Graterol, the Dodgers revised their trade for Betts and Price by sending Verdugo, Jeter Downs and Connor Wong to the Red Sox.

What did the Red Sox get for Mookie Betts and David Price?

The deal saw the Sox send a 27-year-old Betts, Price, and $48 million to Los Angeles for outfielder Alex Verdugo, infield prospect Jeter Downs, and catching prospect Connor Wong.

How much is Mookie Betts 12-year contract with the Dodgers?

The 12-year, $365-million contract extension he signed with the Dodgers gave him the second-richest total deal —13 years for $392 million if his original $27-million salary for 2020 is included — in Major League Baseball history.

What happened to David Price of the Dodgers?

After opting out of the 2020 season due to COVID concerns, David Price returned to the Dodgers in 2021. With a crowded rotation, Price told the front-office he was willing to do whatever was asked of him, which meant coming out of the bullpen for the first time in his career.

What contract did the Red Sox offer Mookie Betts?

$300 million
The narrative surrounding Boston’s negotiations with Betts is the Red Sox offered him a $300 million contract extension, but the 28-year-old wanted $420 million. Boston then decided the price was too steep and traded Betts rather than risking him leaving in free agency for nothing in 2021.

What is Mookie Betts contract?

Mookie Betts contract details Betts signed his 12-year extension with the Dodgers after they acquired him from the Red Sox. The extension begins being paid in 2021, after Betts’ final year of salary arbitration in 2020. Betts was due to earn $27 million in base salary in 2020 in a normal-length season.

What happened to David Price this year?

Now, the 36-year-old left-hander returns to a role he had barely three months to grow into. From 2009-19, he started 310 games; only 10 major league pitchers made more starts during that span. Price opted out of the 2020 season because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Why did the Red Sox trade Betts to the Dodgers?

The first reason the Red Sox made this trade with the Dodgers has nothing to do with Betts, but rather with David Price. The Red Sox were set to owe Price $96 million over the final three years of his contract, an absurd amount of money for an aging pitcher on the decline.

What happened to Mookie Betts?

The Red Sox, who missed the playoffs, will watch Mookie Betts lead off for the Dodgers in the 2020 World Series. Betts was traded from the Red Sox to the Dodgers during the 2020 offseason in a widely questioned trade of one of the top players in baseball for a less-than-ideal prospect haul.

How much will the Red Sox save by adding Betts?

Reports indicate that the Dodgers agreed to pay half of Price’s remaining money, saving the Red Sox $16 million for each of 2020, 2021 and 2022. The part where things get tricky is justifying adding Betts as a sort of sweetner to move Price’s albatross of a contract.

Who did the Red Sox get in the Verdugo-Graterol trade?

The two separate trades are Maeda for Graterol, and Verdugo and Downs for Betts and Price (and cash). For posterity’s sake, here were the original terms of the three-team trade: Red Sox get: Alex Verdugo (from Dodgers), Brusdar Graterol (from Twins)