On Trade Deadline Day, the last day on which baseball trades can be made without asking waivers, the Red Sox pushed their chips in to the center of the table. It wasn't going all in, necessarily-Cowboy Clay, Danny Ocean, and Big Bad Lars Anderson are still here-but Boston sent away Bat Masterson and his bat dodging wonder pitch, along with lesser lights Nick Hagadone and Bryan Price, for Victor Martinez of the Indians. (They also traded one overrated first baseman for another, sending Adam LaRoche to Atlanta in exchange for Casey Kotchman.)
The 30 year old Martinez is a strong hitter, and can play catcher and first base with passable efficiency.
In short, this was really something they needed to do, and they did it.
On the playing field, Boston survived another shaky outing from John Smoltz to pull out a 6-5 win over the Orioles tonight. Our Man Youk struck the winning blow, a 2 run seventh inning homer. RR, Okey Doke, and the Lord of the Dance finished up.
Cool beans!
ReplyDeleteYou know I have never been good at keeping the stats myself... so this is nice. I don't know if a trade is good or bad. You... you I will believe. You know your stuff. Thanks!