The Boston Red Sox stink, and not in the weirdly hopeful way that the stunk last year. They just aren’t good. The management may respond with some big moves. The first, and perhaps most likely, is the impending trade of Jake Peavy.
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He was nearly a trading piece last season, too. In July 2013, the St. Louis Cardinals were so close to coming to a trade that Peavy was told about it. On Sunday, they came to visit and scout the pitcher for yet another possible deal.
“There’s no way that I would have ever — in any way, shape or form — thought this would be the situation we’d be faced with,” Peavy said, via ESPN.com. “That being said, this is a humbling game. There are a lot of intangibles and variables that go into putting together a championship ball club. And this shows, on a year-to-year basis, just how tough it is.”
Peavy is a class-act, taking the rumors in stride and approaching the trade with maturity. However, he as a clear connection to the team and the city after winning the World Series last year.
“It’s unfortunate, the situation we’re in,” Peavy said. “And certainly, in my mind, I’m a Boston Red Sox, and I will be until told otherwise. My heart and soul are not anywhere else.”
He suffered a defeat against the Chicago White Sox in his last start and is already putting in the time to ready himself for his game against the Houston Astros. It’s business as usual. He wants to win games, especially for his teammates.
“These are my guys,” he said, rattling off the names of the players with whom he’d become so close — Jon Lester and John Lackey and Ross and Dustin Pedroia and Mike Napoli, among others, according to ESPN.com. “We share a brotherhood. We would have shared that brotherhood regardless of the way last season played out, but when it played out the way it did, it became a forever thing.”