Giancarlo to the Bo Sox ?

Just saw that Giancarlo Stanton cleared waivers and thought of you since you wrote 5,000 columns about him a couple of years ago. 

Think there’s any chance the Red Sox will go after him now? And what would they give up? I’d give up Xander Bogaerts for starters. 

That was an interesting time, post-2013. I had heard from a very good source that Ben Cherington’s long-term plan was to acquire either Stanton or Jason Heyward (yikes) and build around either of them and Bogaerts.
You have to figure now it’s a blessing it didn’t happen, if only because Mookie Betts presumably would have been one of the prospects headed to the Marlins.
Stanton certainly seems like someone Dombrowski would covet – he wouldn’t be the first prime-of-career Marlins slugger he acquired, and the Miggy Cabrera blockbuster worked out rather well for the Tigers. And Stanton has gone Full Beast this year, slugging 43 homers, which feels like about as many as the Red Sox have as a team. (They actually have 124).

Can’t see how it happens, though, unless Derek Jeter is as bad at running the Marlins as he was at going to his left. Stanton’s famous $325 million contract isn’t going to look terrible in a couple of years when Mike Trout or Bryce Harper gets a half-billion, and yet I can’t see the Red Sox taking on that kind of financial commitment now, with so many quality young players due to get salary bumps a few years from now. Plus, you know Jeter would put a Red Sox tax on any deal and ask for the likes of Andrew Benintendi, Rafael Devers and more in return.


Will it happen, not this season, in the off season ? Maybe, it could, but the Red Sox will have to swallow some pride, and some hot commodities, like Devers, like Boagaerts,  like Benintendi.

Perhaps at the GM's meetings something will happen.