{"id":326237,"date":"2025-12-05T03:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T03:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/326237\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T03:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T03:49:08","slug":"red-sox-reportedly-acquire-johan-oviedo-two-others-from-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/326237\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox Reportedly Acquire Johan Oviedo, Two Others From Pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Red Sox reportedly made another trade for a starting pitcher.<\/p>\n<p>Boston already acquired Sonny Gray to bolster the rotation, and on Thursday, the Red Sox acquired right-handed starter Johan Oviedo from the Pittsburgh Pirates in a multi-player deal. ESPN\u2019s Jeff Passan <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JeffPassan\/status\/1996735831093268994\" rel=\"nofollow\">was the first<\/a> to report the news.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Sox are acquiring Oviedo, left-handed pitcher Tyler Samaniego, and catcher Adonys Guzman from the Pirates for outfielder Jhostynxon Garcia and right-handed pitcher Jesus Travieso, according to Robert Murray.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Two others moving in the Oviedo-for-Password deal, per sources: left-hander Tyler Samaniego and catcher Adonys Guzman are going to the Red Sox. The Pirates will get one player in addition to Jhostynxon Garcia.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffPassan\/status\/1996735831093268994?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 5, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oviedo, 27, dealt with injuries last season as he was limited to just nine starts, going 2-1 with a 3.57 ERA. He projects to be a bottom-of-the-rotation arm who\u2019s a career 15-26 with a 4.24 ERA in 81 games, including 67 starts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Samaniego, meanwhile, is a relief pitcher who reached AA last season. The 26-year-old went 3-3 with a 3.99 ERA over four levels of minor league baseball last season.<\/p>\n<p>The final player the Red Sox acquired is Guzman. The 22-year-old catcher was selected in the fifth round of the 2025 MLB Draft by Pittsburgh. He appeared in one game in A, going 2-for-5 with a home run and two RBIs.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In return, the Red Sox did have to part ways with Garcia, who\u2019s the team\u2019s third-ranked prospect. The 22-year-old reached the majors this past season, appearing in five games, recording one hit and two walks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Red Sox signed Garcia as an International Free Agent in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Travieso split last season between Rookie Ball and A, going 3-3 with a 3.06 ERA in 19 games, including 16 starts.<\/p>\n<p>Oviedo is the key part of the return for the Red Sox, who will join a rotation that will feature Garrett Crochet, Brayan Bello, Gray, Partrick Sandoval, and Kutter Crawford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Red Sox reportedly made another trade for a starting pitcher. Boston already acquired Sonny Gray to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,32064,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-326237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-johan-oviedo","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}