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            AP sources: Red Sox agree to trade Betts, Price to Dodgers



            By JIMMY GOLEN                                                                                                      the  National  League  with
            AP Sports Writer                                                                                                    886 runs and 279 home runs
            BOSTON (AP) — Banking on                                                                                            last year.
            Mookie Betts to be the miss-                                                                                        Verdugo, a left-handed hit-
            ing piece in their World Se-                                                                                        ter, batted .294 with 44 RBIs
            ries pursuit, the Los Angeles                                                                                       and  12  home  runs  in  106
            Dodgers finally pulled off a                                                                                        games before a back injury
            blockbluster  deal  with  the                                                                                       in August ended his season
            cost-cutting Red Sox.                                                                                               early. His outfield defense is
            Boston agreed to trade the                                                                                          average, but at 23 he has
            2018 AL MVP to the Dodg-                                                                                            time to improve.
            ers  on  Tuesday  night,  ac-                                                                                       Betts'  departure  deepens
            cording to two people with                                                                                          the disappointment in Bos-
            knowledge  of  the  deal,                                                                                           ton,  where  the  New  Eng-
            packaging  Betts  with  left-                                                                                       land  Patriots  sat  out  the
            hander David Price in a sal-                                                                                        Super Bowl for the first time
            ary dump designed to save                                                                                           in four years and face the
            the Red Sox tens of millions                                                                                        prospect  of  quarterback
            of  dollars  and  help  them                                                                                        Tom  Brady  leaving  as  a
            dip below baseball's luxury                                                                                         free  agent.  The  Red  Sox
            tax threshold.                                                                                                      are  now  without  the  best
            The  Dodgers,  eager  for  a                                                                                        player,  the  top  executive
            World  Series  title  after  los-   In this Aug. 10, 2019, file photo, Boston Red Sox's Mookie Betts hits an RBI-double during the sixth   and the manager who led
            ing in the 2017 and '18 Fall   inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels in Boston.                  them to a franchise-record
            Classics,  are  sending  out-                                                                      Associated Press  108 wins and the World Se-
            fielder  Alex  Verdugo  back                                                                                        ries  championship  a  year
            to  the  Red  Sox.  The  deal  Betts, who will earn $27 mil-  NL  West  titles  but  hasn't  ed  them  in  recent  years.  ago.
            also involves the Minnesota  lion this season, has spurned  celebrated  a  World  Series  They lost out on two prima-  The deal makes sense only
            Twins, who are getting right-  nine-figure  offers  from  the  championship  since  1988.  ry  offseason  pursuits  when  in  the  complicated  eco-
            hander Kenta Maeda from  Red  Sox  for  a  long-term  They fell in 2018 against Bet-   pitcher  Gerrit  Cole  signed  nomics  of  baseball's  col-
            the  Dodgers  and  sending  deal and expressed eager-     ts and the Red Sox, a year  with the New York Yankees  lective     bargaining   tax,
            pitching   prospect   Brus-  ness to test the free agent  after  being  defeated  by  for  $324  million  over  nine  which  penalizes  a  team
            dar Graterol to Boston. Los  market. Boston decided to  the Houston Astros in seven  years  and  third  baseman  for spending over a preset
            Angeles  will  also  get  cash  move him now — a century  games.                       Anthony  Rendon  signed  limit — $208 million for 2020.
            from Boston to offset some  after  selling  Babe  Ruth  to  Price is due $96 million over  a  $245  million,  seven-year  What's  more,  a  ballclub
            of  the  $123  million  owed  the  New  York  Yankees  —  the  final  three  years  of  a  contract  with  the  rival  An-  that surpasses the threshold
            to Betts and Price, but the  rather than let the four-time  $217  million,  seven-year  gels.                       in three straight years pays
            exact amount was not yet  All-Star walk after the 2020  deal he signed before the  Until now, the Dodgers' top  a  top  rate  of  95%;  on  the
            known.                       season.                      2016  season.  The  2012  AL  addition this winter was re-  other hand, if a team goes
            The  people  spoke  to  The  One  of  baseball's  best  all-  Cy  Young  Award  winner  liever Blake Treinen.       under the limit for a season,
            Associated Press on condi-   around talents, the popular  missed  time  last  year  with  Adding Betts' bat to a line-  the penalty for their next vi-
            tion of anonymity because  Betts  should  fit  nicely  into  a  wrist  issue  and  went  7-5  up  that  includes  Bellinger,  olation resets to the lowest
            the trade, pending the ex-   a Dodgers lineup that also  with a 4.28 ERA in 22 starts.  Justin  Turner,  Max  Muncy  rate of 20%.
            change  of  medical  infor-  includes  reigning  NL  MVP  The  Dodgers  finally  pulled  and  Corey  Seager  makes  This  deal  is  expected  to
            mation,  had  not  been  an-  Cody  Bellinger.  Los  Ange-  off  the  kind  of  splashy  off-  the  Dodgers  even  more  get  Boston  below  that
            nounced.                     les  has  won  seven  straight  season deal that has elud-  fearsome. Their offense led  threshold.q


                                                                      Braves beat Shane Greene


                                                                      in salary arbitration




                                                                      len  Ponak  made  the  de-   Greene had a 2.30 ERA in  Greene  is  eligible  for  free
                                                                      cision  Wednesday,  a  day  65 relief appearances with  agency after this season.
                                                                      after  hearing  arguments.  64  strikeouts  and  17  walks  Berríos, a 25-year-old right-
                                                                      A  31-year-old  right-hand-  in 62 2/3 innings for Detroit  hander,  was  14-8  with  a
                                                                      er, Greene was a first-time  and  Atlanta,  which  ac-   3.68  ERA  in  32  starts  last
                                                                      All-Star last year, when he  quired  him  at  the  July  31  year  for  the  AL  Central
                                                                      made $4 million.             trade deadline. He had a  champions, striking out 195
                                                                      Minnesota    Twins   right-  4.01  ERA  in  27  games  for  and walking 51. He started
                                                                      hander , eligible for arbitra-  the Braves and allowed a  the  Division  Series  opener
             In this Sept. 11, 2019, file photo, Atlanta Braves' Shane Greene
             throws during a baseball game against the Philadelphia Phil-  tion for the first time, asked  tying  eighth-inning  single  against the New York Yan-
             lies in Philadelphia.                                    for a raise from $620,000 to  to Yadier Molina in Game  kees and did not get a de-
                                                     Associated Press  $4.4  million  in  the  second  4  of  the  NL  Division  Series  cision,  allowing  three  runs
                                                                      hearing  of  the  year.  Min-  against St. Louis, which ral-  —  one  earned  —  in  four
             PHOENIX (AP) — The Atlan-    paid  $6.25  million  instead  nesota offered $4,025,000.  lied to win in 10 innings. The  innings.
             ta Braves defeated Shane  of his request for $6.75 mil-  The   case    was   heard  Cardinals  won  Game  5,  Sixteen       players   remain
             Greene  in  the  first  salary  lion.                    Wednesday  by  Frederic  then were swept by Wash-        scheduled  for  hearings,
             arbitration  case  this  year,  Arbitrators   Gary   Kend-  Horowitz,  Andrew  Strongin  ington  in  the  NL  Champi-  which  run  through  Feb.
             and  the  reliever  will  be  ellen,  Brian  Keller  and  Al-  and Margaret Brogan.   onship Series.              21.q
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