Your 2008 Red Sox; Predicted Offseason; Johan Santana

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Done Moves

1) Resigned Curt Schilling to a 1 year, 8 million dollar contracts with incentives to kick it up to 14 million.

2) Resigned Mike Lowell to a 3 year, 37.5 million dollar contract.

3) Resigned Mike Timlin to a 1 year, 3 million dollar contract.

Predicted Moves

1) Acquire Johan Santana from the Minnesota Twins for Jon Lester, Coco Crisp, Jed Lowrie, Justin Masterson and a player to be named later. Santana signs a 6 year, 132 million dollar extension.

2) Sign Doug Mirabelli to a 1 year, 800k dollar deal.

3) Sign Ryan Klesko to a 1 year, 1.2 million dollar deal.

4) Sign Bobby Kielty to a 1 year, 1 million dollar deal.

5) Some bullpen help

Projected Lineup

CF-Jacoby Ellsbury
2B-Dustin Pedroia
DH-David Ortiz
LF-Manny Ramirez
3B-Mike Lowell
1B-Kevin Youkilis
RF-JD Drew
C-Jason Varitek
SS-Julio Lugo

Doug Mirabelli
Ryan Klesko
Alex Cora
Brandon Moss
Bobby Kielty

Josh Beckett
Johan Santana
Daisuke Matsuzaka
Curt Schilling
Clay Buchholz
Tim Wakefield

Jonathan Papelbon
Hideki Okajima
Manny Delcarmen
Julian Tavarez
Mike Timlin
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Johan Santana

Look, the Sox aren't stupid. They know they can get the best pitcher in baseball, and if they have him and Beckett, they will be amazing for years. The Twins aren't stupid either. They like the Sox offer, but they want to make sure they can get full value for him. No way they let him walk for nothing at the end of the season. There is open dialogue between both teams because the Twins are saying, yeah we'll take your offer, but we want to make sure there is nothing out there. The Sox don't need to get more pitching, so they aren't setting a deadline. It would not surprise to me see a deal done around christmas.