{"id":57237,"date":"2022-12-18T20:15:32","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T01:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=57237"},"modified":"2022-12-18T20:15:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T01:15:32","slug":"justin-turner-red-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2022\/12\/18\/justin-turner-red-sox\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Turner Agrees to a Two-Year Deal With the Red Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Third-baseman Justin Turner and the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2022\/12\/05\/rick-porcello-reitrement-mlb\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Boston Red Sox<\/a> have agreed to a two-year, $22 million deal Sunday night, according to Joon Lee and Jeff Passan. The contract includes an opt-out after year one. It marks the latest departure this offseason for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2022\/12\/14\/noah-syndergaard-dodgers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a>, who saw Trea Turner, Cody Bellinger and others depart in free agency.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Justin Turner&#8217;s deal with the Boston Red Sox is for two years and just shy of $22 million, and it includes an opt-out after the first season, sources tell ESPN. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9kAFqqX6ay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/9kAFqqX6ay<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffPassan\/status\/1604610789834366980?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 18, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Boston continues to make moves to improve but contend in the AL East. This move comes days after <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2022\/12\/07\/kenley-jansen-boston-red-sox\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Boston signed<\/a> Kenley Jansen and<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2022\/12\/07\/masataka-yoshida-red-sox\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"> Japanese phenom<\/a> Masataka Yoshida. Furthermore, it&#8217;s a solid transaction in response to losing their two All-Stars, J.D. Martinez, who recently signed a one-year, $10 million c contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Then Xander Boagerts <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2022\/12\/08\/xander-bogaerts-padres-mlb\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">signed with<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2022\/12\/08\/xander-bogaerts-padres-mlb\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">San Diego Padres<\/a>. But for Turner, he&#8217;s going into 2023 as a 38-year-old, and Martinez is only 35. Besides their age, the two had very similar r production in 2022. One of the only big differences to consider is the strikeout percentages. Martinez struck out 24.4 percent of the time, while Turner&#8217;s strikeout percentage was just 16.8 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Rafael Devers I the incumbent third baseman, so Turner will likely split time between first and DH. Turner will be a productive hitter around the middle of the lineup, but they still lack power.<\/p>\n<h2>Justin Turner&#8217;s Career<\/h2>\n<p>Turner didn&#8217;t get a true opportunity in the majors in 2011 with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2022\/12\/09\/mets-re-sign-nimmo-add-robertson\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">New York Mets<\/a>, playing a full MLB season. After a few years with them and not much success, Turner signed a minor-league deal with the Dodgers, and the rest was history. He ended th\u00a0 2014 season batting .340 (led the team) and nearly had a .900 OPS, solidifying himself as the Dodgers&#8217; everyday third baseman for the next seven years.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers made the postseason every year Turner was with the team, and he never shied away from the spotlight. In his post eason career, he is batting .270 with a .830 OPS and has 13 home runs and 42 RBI. And as of 2 20, he holds the Dodgers&#8217; franchise record for most hits in the postseason with 85. The two-tim\u00a0 All-Star won the World Series with the Dodgers in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The 2022 Roberto Clemente Award winner will go down as a Dodgers Hall of Famer.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"GgWIndsfQFxFmnmIIjvkaA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1419133642\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'GgWIndsfQFxFmnmIIjvkaA',sig:'llMeXiLkDFDxaNLE0ZPtzg0eMuk0t6Z73iIjWjnUqEY=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1419133642',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Players mentioned:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/t\/turneju01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=&amp;utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Justin Turner<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/t\/turnetr01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=&amp;utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trea Turner<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bellico01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=&amp;utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cody Bellinger<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/j\/janseke01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=&amp;utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kenley Jansen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=yoshid002mas&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=&amp;utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Masataka Yoshida<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/deverra01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=&amp;utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rafael Devers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/martijd02.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=&amp;utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">J.D. 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It marks the latest departure this offseason for the Los Angeles Dodgers, who saw Trea Turner, Cody Bellinger and others depart in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":57239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2,1071],"tags":[899,2183,435,432,2262,1646,6052,300,292],"class_list":["post-57237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-redsox","category-featured","category-mlb","tag-cody-bellinger","tag-jd-martinez","tag-justin-turner","tag-kenley-jansen","tag-mlb-free-agency","tag-mlb-offseason","tag-roberto-clemente-award","tag-trea-turner","tag-xander-bogaerts"],"modified_by":"Matt Graves","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}