Boston Red Sox, Trevor Story agree to six-year, $140M contract

[Auggie]

Trevor Story and the Boston Red Sox have agreed to a six-year, $140 million contract, sources confirmed to ESPN.

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Story hit a crowded free-agent field -- alongside fellow shortstops Carlos Correa, Marcus Semien, Javier Baez and Corey Seager -- with a resume featuring two All-Star Games, two Silver Slugger awards and MVP votes during the 2018, 2019 and 2020 seasons.

The concern with any player who built his career with the Colorado Rockies is that career numbers are skewed by playing half of his games at Coors Field. Story's batting average and on-base percentage are 60 points lower on the road, his slugging percentage 160 points lower, and his wRC+ 27 points lower. In recent history, Nolan Arenado, DJ LeMahieu and Troy Tulowitzki all became markedly better road hitters with worse home splits after leaving Colorado, though three players is hardly a definitive sample size.

Story, 29, could be moved to second base alongside Red Sox shortstop Xander Bogaerts. At the major league level, Story has never played a position other than shortstop, where he ranked among the majors' best in 2019 with plus-18 outs above average and was an NL Gold Glove finalist.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/33555373/boston-red-sox-trevor-story-agree-six-year-140m-contract-per-reports

Friend of mine, Sox fan, and I were wondering last night when/if Boston would make a big move in the free agent market. Well, here's one.

[Bristlecone]

1. To increase the sample size we can add Dexter Fowler, Juan Pierre, Matt Holliday

Yorveat Torealba, etc. It’s a long list of players who left and went on to win. The Rockies are bad at baseball team management. Period.

Trevor Story is not of the caliber of these men howrver. The Red Sox got robbed imo.

It’s going to be another long season here in Denver.

[ificandream]

2. BoSox are looking very good in spring training.