Red Sox News
Monday, July 7, 2014
Are Sox Hoarding Middlebrooks For Giancarlo?
Part Of A Mega-Deal?
's Jon Heyman
speculates that Boston's hesitancy to trade
might be because they're saving him to be part of a bigger deal for
. Another, more mundane, reason could be that Boston needs all the right-handed power they can muster in their organization—and Middlebrooks has at least shown that capability in the past. As Heyman also points out, the Miami Marlins would
a whole lot more than Middlebrooks for Stanton—likely a
of top Sox prospects. Given the current state of
The Carmine Hose
, the lack of pop in the organization, and the
from the middle of their line-up, a mega-deal for Stanton would seem to make sense.
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