{"id":58571,"date":"2025-06-26T03:42:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T03:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=58571"},"modified":"2025-06-26T03:42:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T03:42:47","slug":"red-sox-trade-proposal-saves-rotation-with-15-5-million-ace-for-prospect-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=58571","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox Trade Proposal Saves Rotation With $15.5 Million Ace For Prospect Haul"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\" class=\"has-video wp-caption \">\n<div class=\"h-responsive\">\n<figure class=\"h-responsive__inner\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Red-Sox-trade-Freddy-Peralta.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Red-Sox-trade-Freddy-Peralta.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Red-Sox-trade-Freddy-Peralta.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Red-Sox-trade-Freddy-Peralta.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Alex Cora\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" data-img-load-time=\"442\" data-dom-ready-time=\"593\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption-credit\">Getty<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"featured-widget-area\">\n<div id=\"heavy_multi_stn_video_player_widget-4\" class=\"stn-player-cls stn-player-container\">\n<div data-stn-player=\"wfgg3pv0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Boston Red Sox need help. After a two-week spell earlier in June when they won 10 of 12 games, including a six-game winning streak, the team that going into the season was\u00a0widely predicted to win\u00a0the American League East has reverted to its previous ways,\u00a0dropping five in a row\u00a0to conclude a nine-game west coast swing at 3-6.<\/p>\n<p>In the current slump, the Red Sox slid from three games over .500 and four games behind the New York Yankees in the AL East, to two games under .500, 6 1\/2 games out.<\/p>\n<p>The problems have been many and various, of course, but outside of that brief winning streak much of the issue comes down to the starting rotation. Red Sox starters had a 4.29 ERA heading into Wednesday\u2019s game, which turned out to be\u00a0a 5-2 loss to the Los Angeles Angels, which ranked 22nd of MLB\u2019s 30 teams.<\/p>\n<p>Starters, outside of staff ace Garrett Crochet, have had trouble getting through five innings, which has a cascading effect on the bullpen, wearing relief pitchers down due to overwork. Red Sox\u00a0starters have thrown a total\u00a0of 431 2\/3 innings, which is not too bad on first glance, at 11th-most in MLB.<\/p>\n<h2>Brewers Starter Named \u2018Best Fit\u2019 For Red Sox in Trade<\/h2>\n<p>But\u00a0Crochet is responsible for about 25 percent\u00a0of those innings, with a league-leading 109 1\/3. The 26-year-old lefty averages 6.43 innings per start, while all other Red Sox starters contribute only 4.97.<\/p>\n<p>One Milwaukee Brewers starting pitcher who may be available on the trade market could go a long way toward solving that problem. Peralta, like Crochet,\u00a0has started 17 games, tied for MLB\u2019s\u00a0best, while putting in 5.47 innings per start. Peralta has also put up a 2.90 ERA while striking out 98 in 93 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps more to the point, according to an\u00a0analysis by\u00a0<em>ESPN.com<\/em>\u00a0experts\u00a0Kiley McDaniel and Jeff Passan, the 29-year-old, eight year Brewers veteran has a 20 percent, or one-in-five, chance of leaving Milwaukee in trade this season.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>ESPN.com<\/em> writers name the Red Sox as a \u201cbest fit\u201d for Peralta.<\/p>\n<h2>Red Sox Could Deal Prospects for Peralta<\/h2>\n<p>With all of that in mind, one Red Sox online account, Soxologist,\u00a0put together a proposal\u00a0that could bring Peralta to Boston. In exchange, the Red Sox would send:<\/p>\n<p>Kutter Crawford, a right-handed starter who has not yet pitched in 2025, and is now expected to miss the remainder of the\u00a0season with wrist surgery<\/p>\n<p>Jhostynxon Garcia, a 22-year-old power-hitting outfielder and Boston\u2019s No. 5 prospect, according to\u00a0<em>MLB Pipeline<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>David Sandlin, a righty pitcher who was an 11th-round Kanas City Royals draft pick in 2022. Now at the Red Sox\u2019 Double-A affiliate in Portland, Maine, Sandlin is ranked ninth among all Red Sox prospects, and second among pitchers.<\/p>\n<p>Mikey Romero, a 21-year-old infielder from San Diego, California, who was the Boston\u2019s first-round draft pick, 24th overall, in 2022. Romero, according to SoxProspects.com, is\u00a0currently the No. 10\u00a0ranked prospect in the Red Sox system.<\/p>\n<p>Minor league expert Owen Hurd of\u00a0<em>Scout the Statline<\/em>\u00a0evaluated the proposal,\u00a0and called it \u201csolid \u2026 probably what a potential package looks like in my opinion if (Milwaukee) deals Peralta.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hurd added, however, that the Red Sox could probably hold on to Sandlin and Romero, and deal Crawford and Garcia by themselves to obtain Peralta, whose\u00a0five-year, $15.5 million contract\u00a0with the Brewers ends this year.<\/p>\n<p>Peralta, who currently leads the National League in wins with eight, also comes with a club option for 2026 before he hits free agency, so he would be more than a mere \u201crental\u201d for the Red Sox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty The Boston Red Sox need help. 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