Xander Bogaerts, viewed in isolation, was an excellent choice for the Padres. He is arguably the best hitter of the big four shortstops and an improved defender, too. But it’s the fit that is odd, Ken_Rosenthal writes.
, who likely will move to a corner-outfield spot once he returns from his suspension for performance-enhancing drugs on April 20. But Preller’s goal in roster construction is to find the most stars, not build the most cohesive 26-man unit.Unconventional as that approach might be, it got the Padres to the National League Championship Series last season, even without the injured and then suspended Tatis.
The arrival of Bogaerts might appear a threat to team chemistry, but Tatis is in no position to fight a position change. And Machado, while a fan of Kim at short, surely won’t object to Bogaerts’ contract, or any of the other recent deals. Machado, entering year five of his 10-year, $300 million deal, can opt out at the end of the season. He would become a free agent again entering his age-31 campaign, roughly the same age Judge was when he hit the open market. Call him Money Machado.
, who is under club control for two more seasons and highly unlikely to sign an extension when he will be a free agent at 26. This Padres team might not stay together for long. It is still in need of another starting pitcher and a first baseman. But it will be awfully fun to watch in 2023, which is more than might be said of the post-Bogaerts Red Sox.
Sox president of baseball operations Chaim Bloom spent the entire season and offseason talking about how re-signing Bogaerts was the team’s top priority. Yet in the end, the Sox’s offer to Bogaerts, according to the Boston Globe, was six years and $160 million. A higher AAV than the Padres guaranteed, sure. But in these negotiations, the Padres operated like a multinational bank, the Sox a mom-and-pop store. The difference in their respective bids was a cool $120 million.
The Red Sox could argue, and others in the industry might agree, that the Padres’ bid was excessive. But the Sox’s miscalculation on Bogaerts dates to last offseason, when they lowballed him on a possible extension. Now they face a significant hole at shortstop, at a moment in the offseason when the options are dwindling.Carlos Correa, nearly two years younger than Bogaerts, is not going to make a sudden appearance in Boras’ bargain bin, as if such a thing existed.
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