{"id":351657,"date":"2025-12-16T07:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T07:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/351657\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T07:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T07:42:08","slug":"red-sox-complete-trade-with-nationals-98-5-the-sports-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/351657\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox complete trade with Nationals – 98.5 The Sports Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"

Craig Breslow and the Boston Red Sox continued to tinker with their pitching depth Monday night, this time with yet another trade. <\/p>\n

Breslow’s latest move on the trade front was a one-for-one swap, with Luis Perales sent to the Nationals in exchange for Jake Bennett. ESPN’s Jeff Passan was the first to report the one-for-one transaction between the clubs, with the trade since confirmed by the Red Sox organization<\/a>. <\/p>\n

A 6-foot-6 lefty, Bennett spent the 2025 season in the lower-levels of the Nats’ minor-league ranks, headlined by 10 games (nine starts) for Double-A Harrisburg. Over his 10 games with the Sens last year, the 25-year-old Bennett posted a 1-2 record, 2.56 ERA, and posted 33 strikeouts over 45.2 innings of work. Bennett also held batters to a .234 batting average against over that 45.2-inning sample. <\/p>\n

Overall, the second-round pick from the 2022 MLB Draft’s 2025 season featured a 2-5 record, 2.27 ERA, and 64 strikeouts in 75.1 innings of work over 19 games between Double-A, Single-A, and High-A ball.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bennett, who missed all of the 2024 season with Tommy John surgery, left the Washington organization as the club’s 11th-ranked prospect, and their fifth-best pitching prospect, according to the MLB’s rankings<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Perales, meanwhile, is coming off a Tommy John surgery of his own, and made just three appearances in the Sox minor-league ranks a season ago. At one point, Perales was considered one of the most intriguing pitching prospects in Boston’s pool given the electricity of his fastball with both its velocity and movement. <\/p>\n

The one-for-one trade is an interesting one in the sense that it is a need-for-need kind of swap, with Passan noting that the lefty-throwing Bennett could factor into Boston’s bullpen plans in 2026. The Red Sox certainly do have a need for a lefty arm out of that pen following the departure of deadline addition Steven Matz and the trading of Brennan Bernardino earlier this offseason. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Craig Breslow and the Boston Red Sox continued to tinker with their pitching depth Monday night, this time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[374,363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-351657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-boston-red-sox","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351657","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=351657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}