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Kansas City is sending outfield prospect Khalil Lee to the Mets in the deal and outfielder Franchy Cordero along with two players to be named later to the Red Sox.
Right-hander Josh Winckowski and another PTBNL are going from the Mets to the Red Sox. Winckowski was recently acquired from the Toronto Blue Jays in the Steven Matz deal.
The players to be named will not be chosen until after the minor league season begins, according to Jen McCaffrey of The Athletic.
Red Sox chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom acknowledged that dealing a homegrown talent like Benintendi was a difficult decision to make - especially since the move came exactly one year after Boston traded Mookie Betts to the Dodgers.
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Kiké Hernández was introduced by the Red Sox on Tuesday, after his two-year, $14 million deal was finalized. The plan for him in Boston will include a lot of second base, but also time at several other positions as needed, which he proved adept at in his six years with the Dodgers.
Hernández figures to get more playing time with the Red Sox than he got in Los Angeles, where he averaged 418 plate appearances and 91 starts per 162 games over the last four seasons. That means he’ll face more right-handed hitters, against whom he owns a 82 wRC+, compared to 120 wRC+ against lefties.
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Major League Baseball has embarked on a strategic overhaul of the minor league system in the past year. MLB and the commissioner’s office has brought the entire development system under the MLB umbrella, presuming that with streamlined efforts, more coherent operations, and synergistic organizational strategies, MLB can better leverage the vast network of affiliates to grow interest in the game – and thereby, of course, grow revenue(s).
Rather than have each affiliated team function as an independent entity, signing contracts with Major League clubs on a contract-by-contract basis, MLB has finished its restructuring so that each ML franchise now has four affiliates – one each for the Triple-A, Double-A, High-A, and Low-A levels – totaling 120 minor league teams, as laid out by J.J. Cooper of Baseball America.