Unable to reach terms, Red Sox renew Mookie Betts’s contract
The Red Sox announced Thursday that they had reached agreement with 18 pre-arbitration-eligible players on one-year contracts for 2017. However, perhaps more notable was the one exception.
The Sox announced that they renewed the contract of MVP runner-up Mookie Betts, meaning that the team and player did not find common ground on a deal for the coming year, resulting in the team unilaterally determining an appropriate salary.
That said, the Sox ended up giving Betts a one-year deal of $950,000 — the second-highest one-year deal ever for a non-arbitration-eligible player with two-plus years of big league service. The only player to receive more was Mike Trout, who received $1 million from the Angels after he opened his career with back-to-back second-place finishes in AL MVP balloting.
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