[Passan] BREAKING: The Boston Red Sox are acquiring first baseman Willson Contreras in a trade with the St. Louis Cardinals, sources tell ESPN.

45 comments

1. Hell yea I hope they just do mini piece by piece trades with stl forever

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3. Finally! 

4. I’ll take it!

5. Hell yea let’s go

6. https://i.redd.it/nmhs7w9okn8g1.gif

7. I cant wait to see what we sent. Makes me a bit nervous, but I really like the fit. Definitely happy with the improvement.

8. So I wonder if this means Casas is on the move?

9. Good start, go get Ketel now

10. Who’d we give up!!!

11. You know what, I don’t care what the terms or years are. We finally decided to get an MLB first basemen

12. I want to see who the Red Sox are sending to STL.

13. Thought it was Arenado at first lol

14. Solid contact rate, decent defense, consistent right handed bat. Checks a lot of boxes!

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16. https://preview.redd.it/4eq5ao3bln8g1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=2ae8b14aea824b6f6026724b94af2bef9a4e7d93

17. HUGE fan of this move, Contreras solves so many issues for us

18. Is Bloom a double agent or something?

19. ‘hunter dobbins the headliner’

20. https://preview.redd.it/98vca0l2mn8g1.jpeg?width=653&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6dd8e2fd64e3e8f6a5eff08c9b00fdd3c0ea49d4

    Lol

21. I just loudly announced this trade in the bathroom at TD garden, at least 1-2 dudes were into it

22. My sweet boy dobbins 🙁 </3 🥀🥀

23. Hunter dobbins going the other way. Not a bad deal at all

24. Dobbins is the real loss. Dang I hope Contreras can make us forget the stuff.

25. Now do Bregman

26. That’s a start. Let’s keep it rolling.

27. Ok. I don’t hate it.

28. Here we go.

29. how is he defensively….as a 1st baseman and catcher?

30. LFG. We finally got a right handed bat to add to this lineup. Now please go and get Alex Bregman.

31. Okay okay! We did something!! Have to think the Craig – Cardinals pipeline is a serious well we keep going to. Happy with this, especially given the fact Dobbins was the headliner going back

32. Thrilled abt this

33. Contreras to start at 1st vs the lefties. Cassis, if he makes the team, will start vs the righties. Cora loves to platoon players.

34. I really like Dobbins and Fitts but if you can add a SP, and RHH without losing Early and Tolle that would be huge. Just pay Bregman at this point and they’re on really good shape.

35. Love Dobbins but this is a big upgrade at first base for not a huge cost.

    Breslow W.

36. I love this move

37. Getting majority of the contract paid and only really giving up Dobbins is massive. If we get Bregman back this was a win

38. Im in, lets see the trade

39. YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YESSSSS!!!!!

40. Love this!!!

41. Has casas I had a year where he played more than a quarter of the season I swear every year he gets a crippling injury and knocks him out for the year.

42. but i love Dobbins….we gave him sox

43. soooooo exciting.yay woo

44. The St. Louis Cardinals. The new Boston developmental team.

45. i honestly really like it. not some crazy blockbuster player that a lot of people wanted and isn’t a one-man fix for the batting issues, but fills a need very well imo. still would love a big bat and i feel like the sox might end up looking at someone like okamoto at this point (if it happens at all).