Tuesday’s three-team deal that sent popular bowler Andrew Benintendi from the Red Sox to the Royals included an unusual ripple: Boston acquired three players to be named later, along with outside team Franchy Cordero and the pitcher Josh Winckowski.
Chief baseball official Chaim Bloom has not yet worked out the specific identities of the players they receive in the deal, but rather worked out a few rules for how and when they decide. Boston will acquire two more players from Kansas City and another from the Mets, who acquired prospect Khalil Lee from the Royals in the deal.
“We have frameworks in place with the clubs on how and when we are going to do that,” Bloom said. “There are no names of the players we are tackling now.”
Although Bloom would not discuss the specific frameworks, it is likely that the Red Sox and the other clubs agreed to lists consisting of a certain number of players from which Boston could select, as well as a deadline for when the decisions were made. must be. If the decisions on the specific players are postponed, the Red Sox could get time this spring and summer to explore Mets and Royals minors after they did not have the chance to see them play in 2020, when the minor season was canceled.
Bloom said it would be a while before the players were named and that a decision could not be expected until minor players started playing later this year.
“It does happen from time to time, even if we are not in the midst of a global pandemic,” he said. ‘It’s helpful to have time to work these things through. Sure, with what we’ve been through, I think it’s more useful and more critical for us. ”
The players designated later in this agreement may be important. Although Cordero, who has 95 games in the big league experience, is the centerpiece, it seems that the combination of him and Winckowski is nowhere near the value of Benintendi and the $ 2.8 million that the Red Sox took with him to Kansas. City did not send. The Mets player, who got a legal prospect in Lee, is likely to be better than the Royals player. As the deal currently stands, the Mets have gotten a significantly better outlook than the ones they gave up, so it goes without saying that they will give up a pretty good player once everything is settled.
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