Red Sox trade Manny Ramirez to Dodgers
According to Jon Heyman of SI.com, the Boston Red Sox officially unloaded outfielder Manny Ramirez to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Pittsburgh’s Jason Bay will head to Boston, while the Pirates will get four minor league prospects in return.
The Red Sox traded Manny Ramirez to the Dodgers late Thursday afternoon, SI.com has learned.
Jason Bay is headed to Boston as part of the deal, SI.com has learned. The Pirates will get four minor leaguers in the three-way trade.The Red Sox went back-and-forth with the Marlins and Dodgers as the 4 p.m. ET deadline approached. Ramirez said earlier today, as first reported by SI.com, that he would accept a trade to any team.
The announcement will be made in conjunction with a World Baseball Classic announcement at Dodger Stadium shortly.
Interesting. This is a pretty sweet deal for the Dodgers because they get the power-hitting Ramirez and didn’t have to give up Matt Kemp or Andre Ethier (two of their top young talents), as previously rumored. They probably had to part with some of their top minor league talent, but the Dodgers might have just leapfrogged Arizona in the NL West and certainly have enough talent to take on whichever teams emerge from the National League.
As for the Sox, they get a productive outfielder in Bay and get rid of a headache in Ramirez. Bay doesn’t have the pop Manny does, but he’s a solid player and he’s under contract until 2009.
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Boston Fans will take the line that they are ok with this …..
Every AL East GM is smiling and somwhere Peter Gamons just shit his little red underpanties
…Yankee Fans are glad not to deal with him and my guess is that he will be worth about 5 games to teh Yankee now that he’s gone.
It’s all good
Turn out the lights in Boston. Manny gave them 2 rings. Now he can ehlp the Dodgers.
How bad is Hank Steinbrenner going to look when Joe Torre’s Dodgers beat the Yankees in the series with Manny giftwrapped from their most hated rival? Or if Torre wins against anyone for that matter. The Redsox may have screwed Hank without even trying.
I live for this!
I don’t know that the Dodgers are going to be in the series because of this deal.
Yo Big Steinney, what are Boston fans supposed to say? Its a no-win situation for us. If he leaves, yes, there is a big hole in the line up and we probably don’t make the playoffs. If he stays, he’ll pull shit like he did against the Angels this week freakin’ jogging after balls in the outfield, or telling the coach his legs hurt but the next night can run from 1st to home no problem. How about batting against Mo Rivera and watch 3 pitches blow right by and not even attempt to swing? This was a rebuttal because they fined him 100g’s for knocking down the Traveling Secretary (no Costanza jokes) because he didn’t get extra tickets to a game for his friends/posse.
Yes, I will miss him on my team, but he’s a cancer to the clubhouse. Bottom line is, 40 million over the next 2 years was not good enough for him. He wanted an extension NOW, just like every other player coming to the end of their contract at the end of their career.
It was a good ride, we got 2 rings and have $40 million to invest.The drama is over, we move on….
In Theo we trust
I forgot to add something, Big Stein, Manny will be wearing pin-stripes next year.
We are of course, your farm team.
Hey Yankee Dudes, You should be sad Manny is gone – he didn’t show up this year against your team. Pushing the old guy and refusing to play was the last straw – neither of them are “Manny being Manny ” – thats just crossing the team line. Sorry Manny – you don’t want to be a part of the Nation – then go to La-La Land. You are an excellent hitter but we didn’t know if you were going to play or not down the stretch – he was looking for another fat contract. Manny got us two – now C’ya Crusty the Clown. I think the Red Sox were fortunate to get a decent ballplayer like Bay at the last minute. He’s not Manny on offense – but at least we know he will show up everynight and give 100%.
How does Yankee guy know so much about Manny anyway ? Was he watching ESPN again ? Stay with the YES Network and grab some more kool aide my friend.