The Red Sox are more than flirting with the highest tier of the Luxury Tax penalty, they’re practically at third base by this point. An early estimation has the Red Sox at $238.8M, just $7.2M below the $246M threshold. It seemed as if this entire offseason that Boston was trying o keep themselves from exceeding that limit, yesterday seemed to shed some new light on that.
On Friday, Principal Owner John Henry made it a point to acknowledge the Luxury Tax and move past it. This entire offseason Red Sox Nation has been told that the organization had zero desire to burn salary on big contracts like that of Craig Kimbrel.