Say goodbye to J.D. and Mookie? Red Sox payroll decisions are about to get ugly

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If Red Sox ownership really wants to reset the luxury-tax clock, then the new GM should expect the following item to be missing from his new office: a checkbook. For the Red Sox actually to drop below the $208 million threshold that returns their penalty structure to zero will require not so much pruning shears as a chainsaw, with two high-profile victims -- Mookie Betts and J.D. Martinez -- on the chopping block. Next Sox GM could come from the Theo Epstein tree The Red Sox spent more than $240 million last year and will be in that range again this year.

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