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The longtime rival of the New York Yankees is no more. For the time being, anyway.
After the MLB Winter Meetings, Dan Shaughnessy, a columnist for the Boston Globe, came to that conclusion.
Recap: The Yankees re-signed homegrown talent Aaron Judge, awarding him a record-breaking $360 million, nine-year contract. Judge is currently the reigning American League MVP.
The Boston Red Sox witnessed two-time World Series champion and homegrown talent Xander Bogaerts agree to a huge 11-year, $280 million contract with… the San Diego Padres?
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After lowballing Bogaerts with a contract extension offer prior to the season and watching the four-time All-Star choose to opt out of his deal following the World Series, the Red Sox never committed to re-signing him.
Only two years have passed since the Red The Los Angeles Dodgers acquired former AL MVP Mookie Betts from the Boston Red Sox.
Following the appointment of Chaim Bloom as the Red Sox’s chief baseball officer in 2019, both actions were taken.
Shaughnessy concluded that “a new philosophy was born” after putting all of that together.
Recall the days when the Red Sox and Yankees were bitter rivals who fought in almost every series and punctuated their sweetest remarks with haymakers?
Well, those times are long gone.
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If it wasn’t enough to watch former Yankees players Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez act like fraternity brothers with former Red Sox slugger David Ortiz while working as MLB analysts for Fox Sports, there’s more:
Even though Dustin Pedroia’s career, marred by injuries, appears to fall far short of Cooperstown, former Red Sox second baseman Robinson Cano is campaigning for Pedroia, who will be on the ballot for induction into the Hall of Fame the following season.
Cano informed the Boston Globe, “He deserves it.” “This is a man who woke up each day and gave it his all in the game. With all that he accomplished for Boston, you had to consider Pedroia in the starting lineup, even with Manny [Ramirez] and the other guys. I believe he is deserving of it.
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