这是2010s 十大交易案第九集，翻译Mike Petriello的外电。
来源：https://www.mlb.com/news/the-10-biggest-mlb-trades-of-the-2010s
(9) The Dodgers roar back to life
Aug. 25, 2012: Red Sox trade 1B Adrian Gonzalez, P Josh Beckett, OF Carl Crawf
ord, IF Nick Punto and $11 million to Dodgers for 1B James Loney, 1B/OF Jerry
Sands, IF Ivan De Jesus Jr., P Rubby De La Rosa and P Allen Webster
9.Adrian Gonzalez/Josh Beckett 交易案
道奇拿到：Adrian Gonzalez、Josh Beckett、Carl Crawford、Nick Punto和11M现金
红袜拿到：James Loney、Jerry Sands、Ivan De Jesus、Rubby De La Rosa和Allen Web
ster
What even?
After a few years lost wandering in an ownership situation/bankruptcy-fueled w
ilderness, new Dodgers ownership took official control of the club in May 2012
. After making some quick upgrades to Dodger Stadium, signing Yasiel Puig ($42
million out of Cuba) and Andre Ethier (a five-year, $85 million extension) an
d trading for Hanley Ramirez, they made just about the biggest splash you coul
d possibly think of, taking on more than a quarter-billion dollars worth of sa
laries in an aggressive bid to improve immediately while they rebuilt the orga
nization into the successful version we know today.
Gonzalez was the centerpiece, as he wasn't even through the first year of the
seven-year, $154 million contract he'd signed in April, but a fourth-place Bos
ton club viewed losing him as worth it in order to rid itself of the more than
$130 million still due to Crawford and Beckett, who were variously injured/un
productive/unhappy in Boston (Crawford) or injured/unproductive/connected to t
he ridiculous-in-retrospect "fried chicken and beer" incident that marked the
collapse of the 2011 season (Beckett).
(1)交易发生背景
在摆脱前老板McCourt一连串财务问题的麻烦后，2012年刚入主道奇的Mark Walter团队决
定大幅整顿这只球队，希望能在最短的时间内重返季后赛。他们以5Y85M续约队中的球星A
.Ethier；从古巴签下超级新秀Y.Puig，还从马林鱼以顶级新秀Eovaldi为首的包裹换来三
届明星游击手Hanley Ramirez。然而他们的疯狂补强仍没有停歇的情况，在换来Ramirez
一个月后，离国联外卡只有2场胜差的道奇马上又发动了这笔牵涉超过4亿美元薪水的重磅
交易。
相反地，在11年季末可怕的崩盘后，在季中暂居美联东区第四，队上又充斥高薪低能球员
的红袜决定卖出阵中刚签下七年合约的主砲Adrian Gonzalez，以试着摆脱领着超过130M
薪资，但是一直受伤的Carl Crawford和卷入啤酒炸鸡事件的Josh Beckett二人。急需战
力的道奇和急需薪资空间的红袜一拍即合，促成了这笔超大交易的诞生。
Were the takes good or bad?
ESPN's Keith Law stated that "this deal could end up looking good for both sid
es, better for the Dodgers in the very short term but much better for the Red
Sox in the long term," while the New York Times had an article titled "Red Sox
Trade Removes a Little of the Stench," which tells you a little about how bad
things had gotten in Boston. "For the Red Sox, this was a no-brainer of a dea
l," wrote now-Padres analyst Dave Cameron at FanGraphs, who also added that "t
here’s no getting around the fact that the Dodgers likely just paid $20 for a
gallon of milk."
(2)交易当时评价
这笔交易案筹码中，最有价值的无疑是当时美联最好的一垒手之一，刚打出155WRC+，6.2
WAR的Adrian Gonzalez。这名能控制7年的重砲手相较于道奇的Loney无疑是相当巨大的升
级；另一名主菜Josh Beckett曾经是Ace等级的先发投手，但是12年上半季防御率高达5.2
3，场外大量的负面新闻和身上背的大合约让Beckett当时的交易价值并不高；第三位选手
Crawford在跟红袜签下大约后严重水土不服，OPS+低到只有89，可以说是完全的负资产
至于红袜拿到的包裹中，James Loney是贡献稳定，但长打能力非常不足的一垒手，De La
Rosa排名BA道奇No.3，是球速很快、但是控球和第二球种都不怎么样，被认为会转牛的
新秀；Webster排在BA No.5，是拥有2号先发潜力，但是控球一样有问题的投手新秀，其
他两位球员就只是配菜。
对此案各方的评价相当不一。ESPN的Keith Law在他的文章中提到“道奇在短期内获得战
力的提升，但红袜在长期会获得较大的好处”；FG的Dave Cameron则认为红袜占优势“这
笔交易对红袜来说根本是不用想也知道要做的交易”，他在文章中这么说道。同一篇文章
中对道奇方他还给了一个相当好玩的比喻“这就像用20美元买一加仑牛奶，看起来相当愚
蠢，但当你有一大堆20美元，而你身边只有一个卖牛奶的人时，你或许只会对价钱抱怨几
声，然后付出那20美元。考量到道奇拥有的庞大资产，或许这笔交易案看起来就有那么一
点道理了”
有趣的是，虽然这么说，但他在文章中最后补了一段，跟译者当年看到这笔时的看法一致
的“也许我想的太多了，道奇只是做了一笔非常，非常愚蠢的交易”
And then what happened?
None of the players Boston got back made any impact whatsoever, which was some
what surprising, though also not really the point. With a newly freed payroll,
the Red Sox that winter brought in Shane Victorino, Mike Napoli, Koji Uehara,
David Ross, Ryan Dempster, Stephen Drew, Jonny Gomes and others, turning a 93
-loss 2012 team into the 2013 World Series champs.
The Dodgers, three games out in the NL West at the time, got good performance
from Gonzalez (116 OPS+) and Beckett (2.93 ERA in seven starts) down the stret
ch but missed the postseason. (It remains the last time the Dodgers failed to
win the division.) Beckett threw only 159 more innings