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Suggested Red Sox trade brings two All-Stars to Boston in mega deal

The Boston Red Sox will be looking for starting pitching this offseason, as they look to go from third place in the division to World Series contenders this offseason.

While Boston may find an intriguing option in free agency, they also have a ton of young talent that they could use for a trade to acquire an ace with some term left on their contract.

On Saturday, Bleacher Report put together a trade framework between the Red Sox and Chicago White Sox. In this deal, Boston would send Roman Anthony, Franklin Arias and David Sandlin to Chicago for Garrett Crochet and Luis Robert Jr.

This would be a massive trade, as the Red Sox would be giving up the top prospect in baseball (Anthony), another top 100 prospect (Arias) and their second-best pitching prospect (via. SoxProspects).

However, Crochet has been in his four healthy seasons, posting a 3.29 ERA and a 1.155 WHIP while striking out 12.1 batters per nine innings. 2024 was his first as a starter, and he earned his first All-Star nomination.

Robert is coming off the worst season of his five in the NFL, hitting .224 with a .657 OPS with 14 home runs, 35 RBIs and 23 stolen bases. He had been great before this past year, earning All-Star honors in 2023.

Boston could address two of their needs (a top-end starter and a right-handed bat) in one trade. They could even then turn around and trade one of Wilyer Abreu, Ceddanne Rafaela or Jarren Duran to add talent elsewhere if they wanted.

Still, this is a lot for the Red Sox to part with.

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