{"id":61821,"date":"2025-12-05T14:12:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/61821\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T14:12:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:12:17","slug":"red-sox-trade-top-prospect-to-pirates-for-johan-oviedo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/61821\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox trade top prospect to Pirates for Johan Oviedo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Sox traded one of their top prospects to the Pirates to help boost their rotation as part of a five-player trade Thursday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Outfield prospect Jhostynxon Garcia and pitcher Jesus Travieso were shipped to the Steel City in exchange for right-hander Johan Oviedo and minor leaguers Tyler Samaniego and Adonys Guzman, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/timbhealey\/status\/1996737076100772034\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the Boston Globe\u2019s Tim Healey reported<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Oviedo, 27, became a solid starter for the Pirates after he was picked up at the 2022 trade deadline. He started nine games in 2025, striking out 42 batters and posting a 3.57 ERA over 40 1\/3 innings while averaging 95.5 mph on his fastball.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37847485\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2247205326.jpg\" alt=\"Jhostynxon Garcia #23 of the Boston Red Sox prepares to bat during the fourth inning against the Baltimore Orioles at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on August 28, 2025 in Baltimore, Maryland.\" class=\"wp-image-37847485\"  \/>Jhostynxon Garcia prepares to bat during the fourth inning of the Red Sox\u2019s win over the Orioles at Camden Yards on Aug. 28, 2025. Diamond Images\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The righty underwent Tommy John surgery that prevented him from pitching the entire 2024 season before he then dealt with a lat strain while building up during spring training.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t make his season debut this year until early August.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Arguably, the biggest piece of the trade headed to Pittsburgh is Garcia.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia was ranked third by MLB Pipeline among Red Sox prospects and is listed No. 85 among MLB\u2019s top 100 prospects overall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Garcia has also earned the nickname \u201cThe Password\u201d due to his hard-to-spell first name.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with NESN earlier this year, Garcia\u2019s father, John,\u00a0 explained where he had first heard the nickname.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37847486\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2238342813.jpg\" alt=\"Johan Oviedo #24 of the Pittsburgh Pirates pitches in the first inning of a game against the Atlanta Braves at Truist Park on September 28, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia.\" class=\"wp-image-37847486\"  \/>Johan Oviedo pitches in the first inning of a game of the Pirates\u2019 loss to the Braves at Truist Park on Sept. 28, 2025. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe learned about the nickname through social media,\u201d he said. \u201cWe already knew that nobody from our hometown had ever played in MLB. It\u2019s huge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His brother Johanfran, also in the Red Sox system, is nicknamed \u201cthe Username.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The trade has not been made official by either team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Red Sox traded one of their top prospects to the Pirates to help boost their rotation as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3472,20,21528,9,11,10,19217,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-61821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-boston-red-sox","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-mlb-hot-stove","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}