The Red Sox traded for Steve Pearce Thursday night.
The Boston Red Sox acquired veteran first baseman/outfielder Steve Pearce in a trade with the Toronto Blue Jays on Thursday night.
Dave Dombrowski, the Red Sox president of baseball operations, announced the deal after Boston’s 4-2 win over the Los Angeles Angels.
Dombrowski said the Red Sox are getting Pearce and cash considerations from Toronto in exchange for minor league infielder Santiago Espinal.
Ken Rosenthal expands on the money:
Source: #BlueJays included $1.66M in Pearce deal. #RedSox’s obligation to him will be $1.5M. Latter number important as Sox try to stay under third and highest $237M luxury-tax threshold. Penalties grow harsher as luxury-tax number rises; Sox already past $197M and $217M.
— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) June 29, 2018
The Red Sox have hit lefties much worse than righties, and Pearce is supposed to help with that.
Espinal is seasonal age 23 and does a good job getting on base. However, he is old for A ball, so I would not expect too much from him.
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