We're less than three weeks away from the 2015 MLB trade deadline, which means there are plenty of rumors swirling around the Boston Red Sox and what they might do on the trade market. With that being said, here's the last in our Red Sox Trade Rumors Roundup For July 11th.
Are the Red Sox sellers?
The Red Sox have won five of seven and now reside just 6 1/2 games behind the New York Yankees in the AL East (as of Saturday afternoon), but is that enough to keep GM Ben Cherington from pulling the trigger on a fire sale?
“It’s time to think about it,” Cherington recently said of Boston becoming sellers at the deadline, via FOX Sports. “ … It hasn’t worked out the way we hoped or expected it would.”
Again, Cherington's quote came before Boston's recent hot streak. In what is a muddled American League playoff race where no team currently has a winning percentage below .440, the Red Sox could conceivably shift to being buyers if they keep the hot streak up up until and through the All-Star break.
Koji Uehara on the move?
If the Red Sox do indeed look to pawn off some of their most valuable trade chips, one name that could be on the move is closer Koji Uehara.
"If the Red Sox don’t get back in the race, they will have a good market for Uehara," Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe writes. “Nobody knows what the Red Sox are going to do because they don’t know what they’re going to do,” said one NL executive. “They’ve got a few players teams would want.”
Uehara has been extremely productive and efficient since returning from a hamstring injury in mid-April, posting a 2.79 ERA and 0.90 WHIP in 32 appearances while converting on 18 of 20 save attempts.
Potential pitching targets
In a recent article for WEEI.com, John Tomase implored Red Sox fans to "forget about Cole Hamels and Johnny Cueto," adding that the Red Sox aren't interested in paying a premium for a top-of-the-market rental at this point.
However, he did name four potential replacement targets to bolster a flagging starting rotation -- Oakland A's RHP Sonny Gray (however unlikely at this point), Cleveland Indians RHP Danny Salazar, Chicago White Sox LHP Jose Quintana, and Seattle Mariners RHP Taijuan Walker.
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