Good morning! The Purple Sox made a commerce final evening. And, no matter whether or not you suppose it’s a superb commerce (Matt makes a pretty strong argument that it is) it’s positively a curious commerce, as a result of Johan Oviedo definitely appears to suit the profile of a kind of mid-rotation starters that Craig Breslow had stated the Sox weren’t going to deal with this offseason.
So what precisely do we predict is happening right here? One chance is that Breslow is so excessive on Oviedo that he views him extra favorably than anybody else on the workers bar Garrett Crochet and Sonny Grey. One other chance (the one I lean in direction of) is that the Sox weren’t all that prime on Jhostynxon Garcia and, figuring out he was buried within the depth chart anyway, noticed a chance to flip him for a participant who can be extra helpful on this roster.
However there’s one different chance, and it’s probably the most fascinating one in all all: there’s one other, larger deal on the horizon. It was just some days in the past that we heard rumors of the Red Sox being interested in Ketel Marte to fill the outlet at second base. And whereas the Sox in all probability do have sufficient younger pitching to get the deal performed, they don’t essentially have sufficient younger pitching to get the deal performed with out placing a severe dent of their pitching depth. So is it doable that Oviedo was introduced right here in anticipation of a deal that sends a number of of Connelly Early, Payton Tolle, Brayan Bello, or Kutter Crawford out of city?
