It’s only natural for teams to accentuate the positive after a trade in order to instill some confidence in their fanbase, but this is a little much.
According to Gordon Edes of ESPN Boston, Red Sox chairman Tom Werner said the following when asked about the pending blockbuster trade with the Dodgers.
“Hopefully this deal will go through today. If it falls into place, the deal sheds us from tens of millions of dollars of long-term commitments. It gets us great prospects who will improve our major league roster as soon as next year. It brings us a player in James Loney who was ‘untouchable’ a couple of years ago. It allows us to start over with free agents. We want to win for our fans and we now have huge financial flexibility to improve the team.”
Yes, the same James Loney who has four home runs in 359 plate appearances this year and hasn’t posted an OPS higher than .756 since he appeared in 96 games as a 23-year-old in 2007. I’m pretty sure Brandon Wood and Lastings Milledge were untouchable back then, too. When are they coming to Fenway?
