Craig Kimbrel Trade Was A Worthy Overpay

TSS:Without A Curse

English - November 26, 2015 16:13 - 40 minutes - 37 MB - ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
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The Red Sox overpaid for Craig Kimbrel, but it was a trade they had to make. Inside this edition of Without a Curse, Alex breaks down the deal and says this offseason will largely be a makeup call for the mistakes the Red Sox made last winter. If they had re-signed Andrew Miller, for example, the Kimbrel trade would've been necessary.

Red Sox president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski said over the weekend he expects the club's remaining big acquisitions to be from free agency instead of the trade market. Though trading top prospects may be "painful" to some, Alex explains why handing out nine-figure contracts to free agent starting pitchers are truly the personnel moves that hurt teams––and it seems as if the Red Sox will be going in that direction.

In the "Around the League" segment, Alex talks about why the Jose Reyes case will be a test to see if MLB is serious about domestic violence and also explains why it's futile to compare free agent contracts that will be signed this offseason to deals that were inked in previous years.

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