Report: Jake Bauers agrees to 4-year contract with Red Sox

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MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- Less than one month after winning the National League Championship Series MVP and helping lead the Brewers to their first World Series title, Jake Bauers is leaving town.

ESPN reports the first baseman has agreed to a four-year, $58 million dollar deal with the Boston Red Sox.

Bauers was one of Milwaukee's break-out stars this past season, setting career highs with a .266 batting average, 26 home runs and 86 RBI. He punctuated his big year by winning the NLCS MVP in the Brewers' four-game sweep of the Dodgers, sending the Brewers to their first World Series since 1982.

Bauers was the author of one of the biggest moments of the entire postseason when he capped an 11-pitch at-bat against Dodgers pitcher Blake Snell by hitting a two-run home run that gave the Brewers a 3-2 lead in Game 3.

In reaching the deal with Boston, Bauers turns down a one-year, $23.15 million offer from the Brewers to earn more total dollars over the four-year agreement with the Red Sox.

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