The Red Sox are meeting with CC Sabathia sometime in the next few days... It's unclear whether the Red Sox are seriously interested in trying to compete with the Yankees' $140 million offer to Sabathia, or if they are just doing their due diligence and preparing alternatives in their winter shopping.Not sure what to make of this. There was some talk earlier in the winter about the Sox having some interest in CC, but we haven't heard anything since. Maybe this is just to scare the Yankees and cover all their bases at the same time.
Here's a little more CC info: Tyler Kepner of the NY Times is reporting that New York is not CC's first choice.
Typically, the Yankees do not need to beg free agents to accept. The Yankees' strategy is usually to identify their target, overwhelm him with an early offer, intimidate the competition and get their man. They have done the first three things, but Sabathia is still a free agent.
"If they went to Sabathia with $140 million, he could go back to them and say, 'Give me $170 million and I'm there,'" said one major league general manager, who was granted anonymity so he could freely discuss another team's plans. "He hasn't done that. The Yankees aren't his first choice. Why isn't he jumping on their offer?"
"It's not that he doesn't want to be a Yankee; that's not it at all," said a friend of Sabathia's, who was granted anonymity because Sabathia had not authorized him to speak on his behalf. "It's just the aspect of being out there, his family, that kind of stuff."Haven't we known this since August?
3 Comments:
I hate Boston, and their uppity new england fans. We need to improve our team so they never ever have the upper hand again in the AL East. And hank will
Hopefully, but I will give the Red Sox some credit, they have a lot of good young talent, and seem like they will be good for long time.
Boston....They named a type of smoked food after that place..."butts."
Mike
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