[交易] Ramirez traded to Dodgers in three-way deal
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Slugger Manny Ramirez's stormy relationship with the Boston Red Sox is over.
Ramirez has been traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Red Sox will pay the
remaining $7 million of Ramirez's contract owed for this season, ESPN.com's
Peter Gammons reported.
"When a player like Manny becomes available, I don't think there's a manager
in baseball who wouldn't say they're interested," said Dodgers manager Joe
Torre, whose Yankees teams went toe-to-toe with Ramirez for years. "It was
something that happened very quickly, obviously."
Wednesday's remarks by Ramirez, who has been involved in trade rumors the
past few years, might have been the final straw for the Red Sox.
"The Red Sox don't deserve a player like me," Ramirez told ESPNdeportes.com.
"During my years here, I've seen how they [the Red Sox] have mistreated other
great players when they didn't want them to try to turn the fans against them.
"The Red Sox did the same with guys like Nomar Garciaparra and Pedro
Martinez, and now they do the same with me. Their goal is to paint me as the
bad guy. I love Boston fans, but the Red Sox don't deserve me. I'm not
talking about money. Mental peace has no price, and I don't have peace here."
Dodgers infielder Garciaparra, who played for the Red Sox from 1996-2004,
said he's always had the utmost respect for Ramirez.
"It's nice to see we've done something like this, to make a push for the next
two months," Garciaparra said. "I think he'll be just fine. Manny is really a
simple person. He works extremely hard. He just wants to play baseball and go
home and be with his family. How can you not respect and love a guy like
that?"
Ramirez, the MVP of the 2004 World Series, remains one of baseball's best
hitters and has enjoyed plenty of big moments in October. But his
relationship with the Red Sox soured -- again -- in recent months, prompting
the All-Star outfielder to agree to the deal.
The Dodgers began the day one game behind first-place Arizona in the NL West,
and were seeking a big bat. Boston, in the middle of the AL East race and
chasing a second straight World Series title, wanted a productive hitter in
return and got that in Bay.
Even before landing the enigmatic Ramirez, Los Angeles had a crowded
outfield. Torre has been juggling Matt Kemp, Andre Ethier, Andruw Jones and
Juan Pierre. "You wish you had the DH," Torre said. "We didn't plan in advance how to move
things around."
Ramirez had a .312 batting average with 274 homers and 868 RBIs with the Red
Sox, who have won as many postseason series with their former slugger in
seven and a half seasons as the Dodgers have in the past 88 years.
Ramirez drove out of Fenway Park in a silver Mercedes at about 10:50 p.m. on
Thursday night, with a handful of fans watching and a couple of television
cameras rolling. He didn't stop to comment.
Ramirez, 36, was hitting .299 with a team-leading 20 homers and 68 RBIs for
Boston. He hit his 500th career home run this year and is one of just eight
players to hit at least 20 homers in 14 consecutive seasons. Dodgers GM Ned
Colletti said Ramirez will be in Los Angeles' lineup Friday night against the
Diamondbacks.
Ramirez was in the final guaranteed year of an eight-year, $160 million
contract, and the Red Sox held $20 million options for the next two seasons.
As part of the trade, the club options were eliminated.
So when all was said and done, the Dodgers picked up a summer rental they
hope will give them a shot at improving upon a woeful postseason track record
in the past 20 years. Since winning the 1988 World Series, they've made just
four playoff appearances and won only one postseason game.
"We figured we had to do it," Colletti said. "There was obviously a point in
time that you have to make a major decision. We did and we were glad we did
it. Hopefully it pays dividends. We're confident we've got one of the best
hitters in baseball coming in here -- one of the best hitters of his
generation from the right side.
"He's a champion, he's a winner, and we really couldn't be happier with
trying to make the club better at this point in time than to do this. We
wanted this player at least for the next two months, and hopefully longer. So
we're willing to take the chance and go with this guy."
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