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Red Sox want lofty price in Betts trade talksJanuary 19, 2020 | 06:40 PM

The Red Sox are asking for the sun and the moon when discussing potential Mookie Betts trade scenarios with other teams. Analysis: Buster Olney of ESPN reports the Red Sox are willing to trade Mookie Betts but only if another team is willing to give them two top-flight prospects and also take David Price and the $96 million he has remaining on his contract. Betts will make $27 million for 2020 in the final year of his contract. That means another team will have to pay $123 million and give up their two best prospects to get one year of Betts and three years of a declining David Price. The Red Sox are trying to avoid escalating penalties for exceeding the luxury tax and they are unlikely to get under the threshhold unless they can find a way to shed Price's salary, which may only be made possible if they sweeten the deal by including Betts.