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Originally Posted by ISiddiqui
Betts and Price on the Dodgers for what they gave up is pretty unreal here. What exactly are the Red Sox doing here?
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It's just a salary dump to get under the luxury tax threshold. If they're under it for a year, then they can (theoretically) chose to go over it again with reduced penalties next year - a time that they know they wouldn't have Betts on the team either way.
Maybe they would have gotten more for him if everyone didn't know they were trading him to dump the salary no matter what.