by Amaury Pi Gonzalez

SAN FRANCISCO–Former San Francisco Giants third baseman Pablo Sandoval has come to an agreement with the Boston Red Sox to the tune of $100 million for five years. Sandoval will be joined by former L.A. Dodger Hanley Ramirez who signed on with the Sox for a cool $88 million for four years.

The word on Yoenis Cespedes he will be traded because the Sox don’t have room for him in the outfield. The Sox said that Ramirez can play leftfield and Ramirez is basically a shortstop. This is nothing new during the Giants celebration parade I was working TV for Telemundo and the news anchor at the time asked “what are the chances of Sandoval leaving the Giants?”

I told the anchor that the chances of Sandoval leaving are excellent and now the Red Sox are going to pay Sandoval $100 million which the Giants weren’t willing to give up. That’s a great opportunity for Sandoval and congratulations are in order for him. He’s going to a team that’s going to be in the race again.

This is that time of the year when teams sign free agents and you might remember last year that the Angels signed Albert Pujols and C.J. Wilson. Well this year is the Red Sox year, their getting Sandoval and Ramirez these are two established All-Stars. These two guys are commanding $90-100 contracts a piece.

Their not done yet the Sox could get Jon Lester back and Lester is worth another $100 million at least for a few years. The Red Sox are looking to improve and their looking to move up in the standings from last place and the Sox won the World Series in 2013 and last season they finished in last place.

But guess what the Sox could be in the World Series next season and they could do what the Giants did and get to the Series every other year. The Sox are going to have the guns, their going to have the players. Pablo is going to be interesting because he had all the love in San Francisco however even though anyone who covers baseball knows that Boston is a tough town on bad baseball.

I just hate to see what those fans in Fenway would do if Sandoval strikes out at the plate and looking bad doing it in the bottom of the ninth and loosing a game for the Sox. The talk shows in Boston are going to go crazy. Yes the Giants get a full house every time they play at home at 41,000 plus but let me tell you Boston fans are the most passionate fans in the game.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the Spanish radio voice for the Oakland A’s and does News and Commentary each week on http://www.sportsradioservice.com