Pablo DFA'd

[Rock Strongo]

finally!

 

[Rock Strongo]

Red Sox Designate Pablo Sandoval For Assignment

Red Sox Designate Pablo Sandoval For Assignment

By Steve Adams | July 14, 2017 at 9:32am CDT

The Red Sox announced that they have activated struggling third baseman Pablo Sandoval from the disabled list and designated him for assignment.

Sandoval is midway through the third season of a five-year, $95MM contract that proved to be a fatal misstep for the organization. Signed on the heels of a six-and-a-half-year span during which he posted a very strong .294/.346/.465 batting line through 3533 plate appearances with the Giants (to say nothing of his terrific postseason work), Sandoval flopped in year one of the pact, hitting just .245/.292/.366 with 10 homers in 505 plate appearances. He made just seven plate appearances in 2016 before undergoing shoulder surgery, and his 2017 work has resulted in a dismal .212/.269/.354 slash through 108 PAs.

Boston will now be on the hook for the remaining $49.9MM that Sandoval is owed through the end of the 2019 season. He’ll all but certainly be released, at which point any club will be eligible to sign him for the pro-rated portion of the league minimum.

 

[Rock Strongo]

 

[Carnzo]

Yippee!

 

[Rock Strongo]

eat 50 mil, fuck it.

 

[soxfan1468927]

I wonder if this will have any off affect on Liverpool potentially getting Van Dijk or Keita

 

[Carnzo]

eat 50 mil, fuck it.

Meh, not our money and it had to be done.

 

[DirtDirtDirt]

I wonder if this will have any off affect on Liverpool potentially getting Van Dijk or Keita

Hope so

 

[Rock Strongo]

 

[Voltaire26]

finally!

I know it's crazy, but I would pick up up for the Major League minimum (unless there is something I don't know). Maybe misery likes company, but it's good to see others suffering with these out of control contracts.

 

[molsaniceman]

I wonder if this will have any off affect on Liverpool potentially getting Van Dijk or Keita

red sox brought in 434 mil last year 50 mil is a drop in the bucket

 

[Carnzo]

I'm just as happy as when Clay Buchholz left and that was a wonderful day in the off season I'l tell you!

 

[Rock Strongo]

I'm just as happy as when Clay Buchholz left and that was a wonderful day in the off season I'l tell you!

the irony of him blowing his arm out in philly...

 

[Pattersonca65]

The SF Giants offered Pablo a lucrative long term deal before Boston came along and saved us. Thank you Boston.

 

[moxie]

eat 50 mil, fuck it.

He'll clear that at the local Sizzler buffet by day's end.

 

[Rock Strongo]

He'll clear that at the local Sizzler buffet by day's end.

hi sugar tits

 

[moxie]

hi sugar tits

 

[Carnzo]

the irony of him blowing his arm out in philly...

Yes, who would have thought that Clay's season would end early?
(Note the sarcasm color)

 

[Guywithtoaster]

Pablo has accomplished something millions of Americans dream of doing... getting paid millions not to work.

 

[AllBettsAreOff]

It needed to be done, but it does kinda suck. Panda's a good dude and I've always rooted for him, but that contract looked bad the second the Sox announced it. Still, I thought they'd at least get a few OK seasons out of him. Instead, he was below replacement level every year. The shift pretty much killed him.

Probably the worst Sox contract of my lifetime. They would have been better if he had been on the DL the entire time. At least Crawford was above replacement level.