Curious if people would have been content with Sandlin, or a Sandlin-level prospect, for Kenley, assuming that the other team picked up all $16 million? Certainly Red Sox twitter would have gone nuclear ...
Depends on what the Sox actually did with said savings.
For example, if it meant signing Montgomery (or even Snell at this point with so many other options off the table, but I’d drastically prefer Monty), I’d be happy with the Sox trading literally all of Jansen, Martin, Pivetta, Winckowski, Whitlock, O’Neill and Refsnyder for a bag of eaten sunflower seeds, and using the money to sign a top half of the rotation starting pitcher long term.
If it meant just banking the salary (or deploying it on say $8m for Duvall and $8m for Lorenzen), I’d rather roll the dice on Jansen being worth more in July.
I‘d be on board with trading any of Martin, Winckowski, O’Neill or Refsnyder for this return.
For Whitlock, I’d think on it, but ultimately think I’d be bummed if it happened.
For Jansen (or Pivetta, I suppose), I think they’re worth more, at least if the salary were fully paid - which to be clear, I think the Sox should fully pay salaries of one year players to buy prospects right now.