It’s Easy To Defend The Decision To Let Xander Go. It’s Much Harder To Defend The Red Sox

Dec 9 2022 by Over the Monster

 
Boston Globe

The Red Sox don’t overpay for players anymore . . . but they also don’t have elite players anymore.

It’s very easy to defend the Red Sox decision to let Xander Bogaerts walk if you want to. Even I — a person so upset about all of this that I just recorded a podcast that opens with freaking Taps — can do it. Watch:

Xander Bogaerts is on the wrong side of 30 and already clearly in decline. His slugging percentage has dropped four years in a row. $280 million...
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