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Tuesday 11 February 2020

AP Source: Red Sox will send Betts, Price to Dodgers

By JIMMY GOLEN Betts and Price, the Dodg-
AP Sports Writer ers have what they hope
BOSTON (AP) — Two days will be the final pieces they
before the start of spring need to win their first Series
training, the Boston Red Sox since 1988.
have again agreed to send Betts will earn $27 million
2018 AL MVP Mookie Betts this year; he is eligible to
and pitcher David Price to become a free agent after
the Los Angeles Dodgers in the season and has turned
a reworked deal, a person down a nine-figure con-
with knowledge of the ne- tract extension. To get him
gotiations told The Associ- for one year, the Dodgers
ated Press on Sunday. agreed to part with Downs,
The Red Sox will receive a middle infielder who bat-
Dodgers outfielder Alex ted .276 with 24 homers and
Verdugo and prospects 86 RBIs at Single- and Dou-
Jeter Downs and Connor ble-A last year, and Wong,
Wong, the person told the a catcher who batted .281
AP on the condition of an- In this Aug. 10, 2019, file photo, Boston Red Sox's Mookie Betts hits an RBI-double during the sixth with 24 homers and 82 RBIs
onymity because the deal inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels in Boston. in Single- and Double-A.
still needed the approval Associated Press Price is due $96 million over
of Major League Baseball. Graterol and then flipped ers spent the weekend find- expense of one of the best the final three years of a
Boston was to send cash to Graterol to the Red Sox fell ing another way to com- players in baseball. $217 million, seven-year
the Dodgers to offset Price's apart last week when Bos- plete the deal that put Bet- Los Angeles has won seven deal he signed before the
salary, reportedly half of ton balked at Graterol's ts in Dodgers blue while al- straight NL West titles, aver- 2016 season.
the $96 million still owed medical records. Los An- lowing Boston to get under aging more than 100 wins After helping Boston win
to the 2012 AL Cy Young geles and Minnesota com- the collective bargaining over the past three sea- a franchise-record 108
Award winner. pleted a separate deal tax threshold in 2020. The sons, but has only a pair of games and the World Se-
A three-team deal that on Sunday night, a person 2018 World Series champi- NL pennants to show for it, ries in 2018, he missed time
would have sent Dodgers familiar with that deal told ons will save tens of millions twice losing in the World Se- last year with a wrist injury
pitcher Kenta Maeda to the AP. of dollars this season in sala- ries to teams that were later and went 7-5 with a 4.28
the Twins for pitcher Brusdar But the Red Sox and Dodg- ry and penalties, but at the accused of cheating. With ERA in 22 starts.q