The Red Sox made a major splash with Tuesday’s Chris Sale, the second swap of the day after acquiring Tyler Thornburg from the Brewers.
MORE ON THE TRADE
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- McAdam: This move means the future is NOW
- McAdam: With a glut of starting pitchers on the roster, who's shipping out?
- Ortiz: My boy Sale to Boston? You guys got me thinking . . .
- Yanks GM: Red Sox are 'the Golden State Warriors of baseball'
- Dombrowski on trading prospects: 'You go for it'
- DJ Bean: Farewell to the prospects who were traded away
- Nightengale: Red Sox now prohibitive favorite in A.L.
While Boston had to give up top prospect Yoan Moncada and three other legitimate prospects in the trade, the deal gives them a very deep starting rotation that figures to see last offseason’s big acquisition -- David Price -- end up as Boston’s No. 3 starter.
Here’s what the reaction looked like as the trade came down:
CSN baseball analyst Lou Merloni gave the deal his stamp of approval.
Yahoo! Sports’ Jeff Passan cautioned against thinking the Red Sox at a discount.
Blake Swihart was not one of the four prospects involved in the deal, and he’ll have a heck of a team to work with going forward.
In Tampa, Chris Archer realized the AL East has a new ace.
And one Sox fan pointed out that Dave Dombrowski has absolutely dumped out what was once a large and top-heavy chest of prospects.
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