It looks like the Boston Red Sox and the Portland SeaDogs have been affiliated forever and since today it will look even more so as the two teams extended their Player Development Contract through the 2020 season. The two baseball clubs are cooperating since 2003 so the connection between the two clubs may seem longer than it…
The San Francisco Giants and their A Full Season affiliate, the Augusta GreenJackets have extended their PDC with two years through the 2018 season. Since the first year of their cooperation, 2005, the GreenJackets have reached the playoffs of the South Atlantic League in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011 and 2013. In 2008 the club won…
A blog post on Blleeding Yankee Blue about the Red Sox’ acquisition of Yoan Moncada made me think. The Sox signed the kid to a contract with a signing bonus of $31.5 million. Add another $31.5 million tax, imposed by MLB, so that makes a total of $63 million spent on a player who has…
Yoan Moncada has signed a deal with the Red Sox. The Sox are paying him a record signing bonus of $31.5 million dollars. I have mixed feelings about this deal. At one hand I wish that the Yankees had signed him but at the other hand, paying $31.5 million for a player that has not…
