{"id":10234,"date":"2024-12-13T02:24:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T02:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=10234"},"modified":"2024-12-13T02:24:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T02:24:56","slug":"boston-red-sox-send-message-with-possible-hint-triston-casas-traded-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=10234","title":{"rendered":"Boston Red Sox Send Message With Possible Hint Triston Casas Traded Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Red-Sox-Message-Hint-Triston-Casas-Soon-Traded.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" alt=\"Triston Casas wears sunglasses\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-content entry-content\">\n<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\" class=\"wp-caption \">\n<div class=\"c-post-image-caption-text\">Triston Casas<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Boston Red Sox have managed to complete just one major trade so far this offseason,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/mlb\/boston-red-sox\/red-sox-garrett-crochet-trade-for-prospect\/\">acquiring ace left-handed starting pitcher<\/a>\u00a0Garrett Crochet from the Chicago White Sox. Even though\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/crochga01.shtml\">the 2024 All Star<\/a>\u00a0was the most highly sought-after hurler on the trade market, the Red Sox executed the trade without giving up any of their top three prospects \u2014 or anyone off the Major League roster.<\/p>\n<p>That includes 24-year-old, fourth-year\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/casastr01.shtml\">first baseman Triston Casas<\/a>, who has been perhaps the most frequent subject of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/mlb\/boston-red-sox\/triston-casas-trade-prediction-red-sox-100-million-starter\/\">Red Sox trade rumors<\/a>\u00a0over the past several weeks, all suggesting that Casas could be swapped for a frontline starting pitcher.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida native has been linked to trades for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/mlb\/boston-red-sox\/triston-casas-trade-prediction-red-sox-100-million-starter\/\">Houston Astros\u2019 Framber Valdez<\/a>, Luis Ortiz of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/mlb\/boston-red-sox\/red-sox-trade-prediction-triston-casas-to-piratesred-sox-trade-prediction-triston-casas-pirates\/\">the Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> and others.<\/p>\n<h2>Promo Image for Red Sox Mexico Games Omits Casas<\/h2>\n<p>In fact, ESPN\u2019s longtime baseball analyst and insider\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/mlb\/red-sox-trade-triston-casas-vlad-guerrero\/\">Buster Olney suggested<\/a>\u00a0early in the offseason that the Red Sox must decide whether to trade Casas now, because with his injury history another shortened season for Casas could badly reduce his trade value in the future. Casas played only 63 games in 2024 due to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/redsox\/2024\/07\/triston-casas-ribcage-makes-progress-could-begin-rehab-assignment-next-week.html\">a cartilage injury<\/a>\u00a0to his ribcage suffered in April,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/gl.fcgi?id=casastr01&amp;t=b&amp;year=2024\">keeping him out of action<\/a>\u00a0until mid-August.<\/p>\n<p>In early November, Red Sox Chief Baseball Officer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston.com\/sports\/boston-red-sox\/2024\/11\/06\/triston-casas-trade-rumors-mlb-baseball-craig-breslow-red-sox\/\">Craig Breslow flatly denied<\/a> that Casas was on the trade block.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not sure where that\u2019s coming from,\u201d Breslow said in early November. \u201cCasas is a guy that we think has 40-home run potential. He\u2019s young and also has a great strike zone discipline and controls an at-bat. We\u2019re excited he\u2019s on our team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But on Thursday, the Red Sox released an image that one former Boston player suggested may have been a cryptic message about Casas. Lou Merloni, the former Red Sox utility infielder who is now an analyst on both television and radio broadcasts for the franchise,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LouMerloni\/status\/1867178029786538001\/photo\/1\">posted the image<\/a> with the comment, \u201cDid anyone even notice who was missing??\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post was a promotional image for the Red Sox\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2024\/12\/11\/sports\/red-sox-spring-training-monterrey\/\">trip to Monterrey, Mexico<\/a>, coming up in March, 2025. Boston will close out its spring training schedule by playing two games there, against the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sultanes.com.mx\/\">Mexican Baseball League club Sultanes<\/a>, a 10-time league champion franchise that was founded in 1939.<\/p>\n<p>The Sultanes club also participates in the Mexican Pacific League, a winter baseball league whose 68-game schedule is currently underway.<\/p>\n<h2>Ex-BoSox Player Suggests Casas Absence Hints at Trade<\/h2>\n<p>The Red Sox\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LouMerloni\/status\/1867178029786538001\">promotional image<\/a>\u00a0depicted six of Boston\u2019s top players: Rafael Devers, Jarren Duran, Brayan Bello, Wilyer Abreu, Ceddanne Rafaela and Tanner Houck. In answer to Merloni\u2019s question, commenters on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) quickly realized that the \u201cmissing\u201d player was Casas \u2014 a possible hint that Casas will soon be traded and by the time of the Mexico trip in March will no longer be a Red Sox player.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sick. Can\u2019t trade Casas,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tshake13\/status\/1867189622620787156\">one commenter wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But other commenters suggested that because the post was promoting games in Mexico, the Red Sox simply included their top Latin players, plus Houck who was the Number One starter in 2024. However, Casas \u2014 though born in Miami \u2014 is arguably as much\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/news\/jarren-duran-red-sox-family-nationality-background-college\/44442aebc1102fd2658fc8b5\">a Latin player as Duran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Duran was born in California though his father is a native of Mexico and his mother is Puerto Rican. Casas was born in Miami, Florida, but his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportskeeda.com\/baseball\/news-who-triston-casas-parents-christine-jose-family-life-red-sox-baseman-explored\">grandparents escaped Cuba<\/a> in 1960 and immigrated to the United States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Triston Casas The Boston Red Sox have managed to complete just one major trade so far this offseason,\u00a0acquiring ace left-handed starting pitcher\u00a0Garrett Crochet from the Chicago White&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Boston Red Sox Send Message With Possible Hint Triston Casas Traded Soon - 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