Red Sox are ‘floored’ after Xander Bogaerts agrees to $280M deal with Padres - Passan | SC with SVP 

That shot of the arod deal in 2007 compared to these deals 15 years later really puts into perspective how big of a bag he secured back in the day, dude was insane in his prime.

Grew up in San Diego and have lived in Massachusetts for 24 years…I like the Sox but LOVE the Pads! Go Pads!

We have the best owner. What a time to be alive. Go SD! 🎉

If they still extend Soto I’m gonna bust

Padres payroll is gonna be insane, they want that championship.

Boston fan here! Congrats on your Xander signing,and have fun! New Padres fan.

If you’re the Red Sox ownership rn, you should be ashamed of yourselves. You let two generational talents and other all stars leave for almost nothing in the past few years. What a disgrace

I love when teams go for it ‼️‼️

Thanks for everything Xander.

Much respect for the Padres. Yankee fan here. Hal has something to learn from SD

sucks to see, I got xanders jersey opening day of his first year in boston, will miss him dearly. The sox ownership are surprisingly cheap the past half decade so no shot they were giving him that money, glad he got it somewhere I like the team too.

I'm a Red Sox fan but 11 years is ridiculous with a no trade clause the Padres will regret it. Boston needs pitching the BP blew 28 games this season the worse in baseball. They just signed 2 solid arms plus i think today the Braves closer correct me if 'm wrong about the Braves. The guy was 5 and 2 with 41 saves Boston is signing people where it's mostly needed. They can move Storey from 2nd to short since he's a regular SS and a better fielder then Bogey whi isn't noted as a great SS. he'''ll make the plays but his range isn't the best. there were several short stops on the market Bogey wasn't the first choice. The Padres will find Bogey to be steady with good clubhouse leadership so good luck to the Padres.

If Tatis can actually come back and not drug up, Soto can have a bounceback year similar to 2021, Machado stays great, and Bogaerts performs like he does, that is a NASTY offensive juggernaut.

Bos should have resigned Betts but Bogaerts for 11/280 is an overpay by 150M at least. This is a 30+ year old SS who had 15 HR 73 RBI last season. Sorry that's not worth 280M let alone 200M.

Dodger fans: "can we please get a top FA shortstop" Front office: we have shortstop's at home...

That 1-4 of Tatis, Soto, Machado, Bogaerts is insane. Might be the best 1-4 in MLB history.

We be having so much money and I be confused but ecstatic 😂🔥

WHY NOT US

As a padre fan . I’m just amazed . I really thought after James shields and upton and meyers being a fail. That that was it. We aren’t gonna spend money again. But I CANNOT even begin to tell you the hope he’s given us padre faans it’s nothing I’ve ever experienced as a fan of any team from this city. The commitment to win by any means is all a fan could ask for . Win or lose I will forever respect this management . Because that’s all this game is ever gonna be about

How does San Diego have this much money

The problem with this is now the Sox will literally have to back the truck up to secure Devers because I don't know if management would be able to survive the fan backlash of losing a third franchise player in four years. He is only 26 years old as well so they need to realize that offer will have to be in the ballpark of 10-12 years/$300M since there will be quite a few other teams more than willing to go that length.

To answer the obvious question, No you do not need to spend 10 year 250-300M deals to be a WS Caliber team. HOU has nobody making anywhere near 200M, allowed Correa and Springer to leave and easily won the WS last season. Comes down to pitching, minor league development and smart free agent investments. This would have been foolish for BOS to meet.

Padres spending like they are a big market team, and I love it!

This is a great move for 3 or 4 years, but a horrendous deal after that. It works if they win a championship or 2, but if they get blanked the Padres are screwed for 10 years after the next 3 orv4.

as a red sox fan screw this front office

An absolutely horrendous deal for the padres in the long run, but good for a few years. These long deals always end horribly

NICE TO SEE YOU SCOTT MY GUY FROM MARYLAND 🇺🇸 GLAD YOUR BEAUTIFUL ESPN OFFICE IS IN DC 🇺🇸 NOT NEW YORK CITY

How many 10 year contracts have worked out well?....especially for a guy who's 30?

At least it isn't NewYork

The Red Sox finished in last place. They must like it there.

280m for the 3rd best ss on their team.

Only 1 player older than 33 had a OPS in the top 40 last year. These long deals aren never good.

John Henry needs to go now

Also I can’t begin to explain how smart Preller is. He will sign anyone and everyone to whatever 10 year contract they want . If you don’t live up to your contract. He will dump you to a team . Get a prospect from you and even eat some dead money and move on. That’s how they essentially built this team behind Tatis . They signed hosmer to a big deal and did the same thing. It’s really amazing to see such an aggressive and smart gm and owner who never cowers away from a challenge.

Losing xander has now revealed how bad a decision it was to trade away Mookie betts..

Makes no sense like what Jeff Passan said. Padres has solid shortstops. Padres should have focused on outfielders or pitchers.

How many short stops can a team field? Does not guarantee a ring - winning is about pitching and defense and timely hitting - Astros still team to beat

Padres could’ve spent that money on pitching.

The Red Sox will regret letting go Dave Dombroski to bring in Chaim Bloom who been very passive when it comes to making moves and signing players.

Paying this dude until he’s 41 when they just extended their 23 year old SS… really don’t like this move SD will only finish second in the NL West and lose in the WC once again

This deal is gonna age like milk

No way is he worth that type of money! 11 years, 280 milli??….good on the Red Sox for not paying that ridiculous amount of money….

🟫🟨🟫🟨🟫🟨 LFG !!!!

I just feel like this is a secondary move that they feel they had to make since both deals for Turner and Judge got rejected

I can only blame Chaim so much...he was hired by John Henry to be the Wal-Mart "Great Value" GM. Keep costs down, take 50 cents on the dollar in a deal, etc. These are things CB is known for and does well...might as well hang out a For Sale sign on Devers right now.

Petco has a playoff atmosphere every night baby

Doesn’t feel great to lose a player like Xander but this contract is just flat out bad

the NL west is gonna be the SD’s division for a while 👌🏼👌🏼🤎💛

Pain.

I'm not a huge baseball fan but this signing makes no sense in my eyes

Good thing we have Trevor Story

280mill while I work 65hrs a week must be nice

Moving Kim off SS is negative EV move

The Padres were going to offer Judge 14/400, but the MLB make it quite clear they'd shoot it down as an attempt to bypass the luxury tax.

I'm sure the Red Sox will use the saved money to build a modern park.

One question though: where is he gonna play? They have 3 shortshops. Hopefully they aren't paying him that much to DH.

Bogaerts with no shift and 3 MVP caliber players batting around him ! Him and manny leading this team and by the time they get old ….. tatis and soto will be running the show 😈 im not questioning or complaining about 11 years …… dodgers are paying cry baby and bowler boy till there about 40 …. But they have no soto / tatis

As a Yankees fan let’s go

In 2018, the Sox were the envy of the baseball world. 6...count them...6...young homegrown starting position players. Bogaerts, Betts, Benintendi, Bradley, Jr., Vazquez, and Devers. Devers is the only one left, and he will be gone after 2023. Bloom completely dismantled a team filled with home-grown talent. He brags about developing talent, then treats him like garbage and won't pay them. Everyone keeps talking about Bogaerts' contract...the Sox treated him like garbage and never, EVER, tried to keep him. 4 teams offered him $200 million plus, but all the Sox offered was 6/$160. Bogaerts could have been locked in for fewer years and more money before last season began and Turner skewed the market. Bloom has proven he cannot negotiate with "A-Tier" talent and their agents. He's a small-market GM with a small-market mentality. How does he still have a job in Boston?

Soto, Bogarts, Machado, Tatis, Cron zone, Kim Trent not a bad deal at all

Wow Red Sox fans we lost as DJ Khalid say “ANOTHER ONE” 😢🤦🏾‍♂️

My Padres are going to be one explosive team, can't wait to see this lineup in action.

Happy 2see SD going for it

Within 2 years there will be Marcelo Mayer at SS for Boston and then ?

I’m glad the cubs don’t have to pay him until he’s 41

I mean sure give a 30 year old 11 years. The difference between him and verla see and sherzer. They have proven themselves to be effective at an old age Boegarts hasn’t done that yet

Padres have gold in around 130m in the top 4 batters and then trash 5-9 lol great top heavy lineup

He'll be like Jacoby ellsbury of the Yankees ...too old for that kind of money..

Love it

This is best case scenario for the Padres vs turner or judge to be honest

The Henry’s need to sell the team. They’ve decided to be frugal in a sport with no salary cap. Doesn’t work

Let’s goooo !!!

Wow I'm shocked

Are they trying to bring up Marcelo Mayer?

Dodger Stadium will soon become Petco North baby FTD

Wow!!!!

Trevor Story bouta be the starting shortstop

LFGSD!

They didn’t want to pay him or Devers, nothing to be shocked about .

Tremendous

Dumb Padres! They havent learned with the Albert Pujol contract!

If AJ Preller isn't worried about the money, neither should you..

Chaim = maim... literally destroying 2018... looks like another wait similar to 1918?

Sinve we're so hot on not keeping our best players, my Red Sox should now let Devers get away without getting anything for him, and then sign players from the local beer softball league. Seems like that's what they'd rather have. Jeezus, we had Betts, Bogaerts, JBJ, and Devers in addition to guys like JD. Alls we needed was starting pitching that didn't get hurt every year like the made of glass Sale and we would of contended for several years. But no. Now we lost three of those four and we still have absolutely zero starting pitching. We won't contend for the next 5 years at least. Why not finish the job and trade the farm system for a bag of used baseballs? I know what I won't be doing next summer. Paying attention to baseball.

LFGSD!!!! 💛🤎💛🤎

Ownership needs to wake up if they want to compete, the homegrown talent should be given contract extensions long before they are eligible to hit the open market! By then it is too late, they did this with Lester, then Betts, now Boggie, next is Devers but the problem is there is no talent in the pipeline in order to replace what is lost, the prospects are still about two years away:(

SD needs pitching

rouschfenway racing in nascar liverpool in soccer maybe the red sox need to concentrate on building a winning baseball team ⚾

I hate Chain Bloom’s management. I don’t watch Red Sox games anymore. Enough with being the rays

That contract is awful

Absolutely disgraceful. Chaims days are numbered here in Boston

Floored? Lol I wouldn’t say “floored”

I think it's safe to say the Pads have blown past the Dodgers in the NL West, and the Giants - who put all their efforts into signing Judge - have been left in the dust. You can make an argument that as things stand today, the Rox and D'Backs might be better than the Giants!

This seems like a waste of money. SD has no pitching 3-5 and the relief isn't as good as it should be and you keep going out to get more batters 🙄🤦

On paper padres are getting an all star team…but the clippers on papers looked good too 😂😂😂😂😂

Bloom needs to go!

Baseball is the only sport without any salary cap at all and this is what you get. Only teams with big bucks can field good teams and have a chance at the championship. Other teams have no chance whatsoever. Look at the NFL with a hard cap and this is one reason the sport is so popular. Baseball is digging it's own grave.

Look forward to the padres desperately trying to get off this contract in 2 years

Who's paying for this? Ultimately it's the fans. A majority of fans haven't been able to afford to take a family of 4 to a game in years. Now these teams are putting games on 3-4 different streaming service each with a subscription fee. Can't wait until i'm listening to the games on radio and hearing that the ballpark is empty. Mark my words the day is coming!

So what make Soto the DH because he's the odd man out defensively. Profar is a better outfielder than Soto.