{"id":340296,"date":"2025-12-10T04:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/340296\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T04:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:05:11","slug":"red-sox-reportedly-have-discussed-making-blockbuster-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/340296\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox Reportedly &#8216;Have Discussed&#8217; Making Blockbuster Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Red Sox reportedly are \u2014 for lack of a better phrase \u2014 swinging for the fences.<\/p>\n<p>Boston has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2025\/12\/09\/sports\/red-sox-trades\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reportedly discussed trades<\/a> for Arizona Diamondbacks second baseman\u00a0Ketel Marte, Houston Astros third baseman\u00a0Isaac Paredes, St. Louis Cardinals infielder\/outfielder\u00a0Brendan Donovan\u00a0and Texas Rangers shortstop\u00a0Corey Seager, according to Tim Healey and Alex Speier of the The Boston Globe.<\/p>\n<p>Marte being targeted is hardly news, as he <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2025\/12\/red-sox-insider-downplays-clubs-pursuit-of-ketel-marte\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">has been connected to the club<\/a> for over a week by several different sources, though those other names are fairly fresh\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Paredes and Donovan would best be described as <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2025\/12\/red-sox-reportedly-surprisingly-high-on-these-roster-members\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">marginal moves<\/a>, with each possessing impressive defensive versatility but also serving as undoubted downgrades from Alex Bregman.<\/p>\n<p>Seager, on the other hand, is an absolute superstar and mashes from the middle of the infield \u2014 slashing .294\/.372\/.544 while averaging 28 homers and 73 RBIs each season since 2023. The Rangers, who have missed the playoffs each of the past two seasons, are cutting payroll and already have traded second baseman\u00a0Marcus Semien\u00a0to the New York Mets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Seager\u2019s contract will pay him a total of $186 million and runs through 2031.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are some hitters of note who are trade candidates),\u201d Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow said on Tuesday, per the report. \u201cIt\u2019s really difficult to pry other team\u2019s best players away from them. And in doing so, you have to give up talent yourself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese types of trades should be uncomfortable for both sides. And so we\u2019re engaged in those conversations. It\u2019s impossible to know today what will get executed, what will reach the finish line, and what won\u2019t. But going to trades and free agency are both good ways to improve our roster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Boston might feel uncomfortable dealing for one of those players, but bringing aboard a two-time World Series MVP that has been an absolute superstar across three different postseasons runs should help things\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Red Sox reportedly are \u2014 for lack of a better phrase \u2014 swinging for the fences.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[13195,7953,39190,10002,363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-340296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-brendan-donovan","9":"tag-corey-seager","10":"tag-isaac-paredes","11":"tag-ketel-marte","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}