Insider Hints At Red Sox’s Hesitation To Sign Dodgers Superstar Teoscar Hernández

One thing wants to vary for the Boston Pink Sox this winter.

For 3 years, the Pink Sox have been too inconsistent a crew to make an sincere playoff push. They may achieve this in 2024 in the event that they make investments correctly in beginning pitching and a right-handed bat. However they have not proven the urgency in previous winters to make these type of essential investements.

This winter, there’s been speak that the Pink Sox will lastly be able to open up their wallets. And with particular regards to right-handed hitting, Teoscar Hernández of the Los Angeles Dodgers has been a well-liked identify mentioned as a goal for Boston.

Alex Speier of the Boston Globe sees the identical apparent match for Hernández in Boston as most do, however he had a phrase of warning for the Pink Sox’s pursuit of the slugger. He believes the Dodgers’ probability of extending Hernández a qualifying provide diminishes the percentages that the Pink Sox may pull off the signing.

“Teoscar Hernandez looks like such a pure match… however may not be if he’d require not solely a multi-year deal but in addition the sacrifice of a second-round draft decide if the Dodgers make him a qualifying provide,” Speier mentioned in a Reddit AMA on Wednesday.

Speier touched on the topic a second time, when particularly requested to handle whether or not the Pink Sox would spend large on right-handed bats.

“I would not suppose ‘cut price bin’ could be enough, particularly if O’Neill walks. However I do query whether or not they’ll chase, for example, Teoscar Hernandez on condition that the Dodgers will possible drop a qualifying provide on him.”

If there’s any participant value breaking the financial institution for this winter, Hernández is that participant for the Pink Sox. He is coming off a career-high 33 house runs, put up an .840 OPS/137 OPS+, and had some big playoff moments, together with the game-tying two-run double in Wednesday’s World Sequence Recreation 5.

Hernández is at the moment projected for a three-year, $75 million contract by Jim Bowden of The Athletic. There isn’t any telling the place the ultimate determine will fall, however any crew keen to pay that greenback quantity must also be keen to give up a second-round decide as a part of the discount.

Briefly, there isn’t any cause for the Pink Sox to be scared off. But when they someway create one of their brains, they’re going to simply be shedding out on one more high expertise who can get them nearer to a championship.

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