Fansided · Nov 9, 2019
Red Sox Predictions: Five teams that should trade for J.D. Martinez
The Red Sox aren’t in a good position to hold onto both JD Martinez and Mookie Betts. Perhaps, a team will offer to take Martinez off Boston’s hands.
Common knowledge to the baseball world, J.D. Martinez has opted into his contract with the Boston Red Sox for 2020. Unfortunately for Boston, that stretches payroll very thin. With Martinez’s salary counting towards the payroll, that is $23.75 million more that the Chaim Bloom will have to shave to get under the luxury tax payroll.
