Xander Bogaert is gone. The Red Sox are still here.
Much of flotsam and jetsam that’s floated around the internet about inside details of the Xander deal — that four other teams offered him over $200 million, that he would’ve been open to the deal Trevor Story got in spring training, etc. — come from this opus in the Globe. (Alex Speier and Pete Abraham, Boston Globe)
For all the talk about San Diego’s $280 million...