How Aggressive Will Boston Red Sox Be at Trade Deadline?
Red Sox Chief Baseball Officer has the assets necessary to make a major splash ahead of the trade deadline.
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What's up everyone?
Zach Coe here for Roundtable.
We are less than two weeks away from the August 3rd trade deadline, and the Red Sox look to be surefire buyers thanks to a 14-game winning streak that has not only put them in sole possession of the final wildcard spot in the American League, but brought them back into the American League East race.
So I wanna take a minute to talk about some comments from baseball's top reporter, that's ESPN's Jeff Passan, on the Pat McAfee Show, where he said he thinks the Red Sox are gonna be aggressive in their pursuit of lineup upgrades, citing Angels shortstop Zach Netto, Astros shortstop Jeremy Pea, and current Nationals shortstop, although he probably profiles more as a second baseman moving forward, CJ Abrams.
And he cites all those guys as being potential options for the Red Sox as a shortstop has become the point of interest for the Red Sox lineup.
And of course, Trevor Story, before going down with that hernia, was among the worst qualified hitters in baseball, and Marcelo Meyer hasn't popped at the big league level the same way that they were hoping he was going to heading into the season, and also now he's down with an injury for seemingly the millionth time in his career.
He hasn't shown the ability to stay healthy yet.
So it makes sense that looking towards a shortstop of the future could be a point of emphasis for the Red Sox moving into that trade deadline.
But there are also several other names that could be of interest to the Red Sox, and adding a power hitter for your lineup, not only in twenty twenty-six, but moving forward, whether it be at the catcher position with Rockies, Hunter Goodman, or The Athletics' Shay Langeliers, or even adding a short-term option at your designated hitter spot, like Eugenio Suarez, who we know the Red Sox pursued in the off-season as he was a free agent.
But this deadline gives Craig Breslow an opportunity to right the wrongs of the off-season, where he didn't get enough for this Red Sox lineup.
And for much of the season, this was a lineup that, as Breslow told Chris Cotillo of masslive.com on Sunday, has struggled to score runs at times.
So there is plenty of reason for Breslow to go out there and be aggressive.
He's laid two eggs in his first two deadlines at the head of the Red Sox, and it's kind of been the same story where you don't do enough to add at the trade deadline when you have clear needs and your team fizzles out.
Obviously, they make the playoffs last year, but they tried their hardest to fizzle out.
The offense really just wasn't giving you enough in the wake of the Rafael Devers trade, and then you went ahead and didn't replace that production in the off-season.
So you still have a pretty glaring hole in your lineup, a Rafael Devers-sized hole in your lineup that is yet to be filled.
And this deadline with all the names being thrown around and the strength of your pitching staff gives you a real opportunity to go out there and add a big fish and make yourself the World Series contender that you painted yourself as coming into the season
