Published on Friday, December 11, 2009
By RONALD BLUM
INDIANAPOLIS . The Boston Red Sox reportedly consummated a trade that sends 2007 World Series MVP Mike Lowell to the Texas Rangers.
The trade was under discussion Thursday but boston.com reported last night that the deal had gone through.
The 35-year-old third baseman was an All-Star four times from 2002-07, hitting .324 with 21 homers and 120 RBIs in 2007. But he slumped to 73 RBIs in 2008 and 75 RBIs this year, hitting 17 homers each season. The Rangers send minor league catching prospect Max Ramirez to Boston.
Lowell was slowed by surgery in October 2008 to repair a torn labrum in his right hip and remove a bone spur on a thigh bone. He is owed $12 million in 2010, the final season of a $37.5 million, three-year contract.
Earlier on Thursday Rangers general manager Jon Daniels would say only that the teams were discussing the trade, which was subject to physicals
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