Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times wonders if the Red Sox's Carl Crawford could be a fit with the Dodgers. If Boston were willing to pay off part of his $142MM contract and accepted some decent pitching in return, he believes there could be a match between the two teams. Not sure if this came through but it is intriguing. If the Red Sox were to eat 5 mil per year, you are getting Crawford for 15 per. He could slot into left and would make a great guy to hit in front of Kemp. You could move Ethier to the 4 hole. Next year, you would have Gordon/Crawford/Kemp/Ethier/insert power guy here/ That would be killer should Gordon learn to get on base. The Red Sox walk away from most of that contract and the Dodgers get a hitter.
I agree that $15M is WAY too much for this guy. His AAS from this year on is $21.3M. The only way I take him is if his salary drops to about $11-12M/year, meaning the Red Sox would have to eat at least $56M of the $128M remaining. He'd be a good fit, sure, but I just don't see this happening at all.
Crawford is getting MVP money from the Sox to put up all star numbers when he's at his best. No thanks.
http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/7...cks-consider-adding-vladimir-guerrero-gm-says think they want to beat us to it.