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Message: [QUOTE="FlippinCrazy!, post: 5074441, member: 8803"] That is around the range the Sox reportedly offered before being traded. Again I do think he wanted to go to free agency to help the players and that it probably would’ve taken $35M-40M a year for 8+ years for him to sign an extension before Covid. In the end, the David price and Chris sale deals made offering that much almost impossible. They’d be committing ~$90M to those 3 players coming off a disappointing year they weren’t really close to making the playoffs, with very little talent in the farm system. Kind of similar to the Yankees last year, except without one of the top farm systems to go out and make a Juan Soto like trade or even just supplement at trade deadlines. In retrospect, yes mookie still would’ve been worth that, but I don’t blame the Sox for moving him. I think Bloom should’ve taken on some salary dumps in those years after trading Mookie (look for one of those Carl Crawford / Adrian Gonzalez type trades that the dodgers/sox also made except be on the other end of it), or ate the Price contract to get some better prospects in the trade. But clearly Red Sox ownership wanted to cut payroll so that wasn’t happening. [/QUOTE]