Can The Red Sox Deal For A Long-Term Ace?

We finally got our first big trade of the 2023 deadline season, as the “Wow, things really got out of hand” White Sox traded Lucas Giolito to the “I guess we’re doing this?” Angels of Anaheim. The Red Sox, reportedly, were not in the mix. If you read between the lines of what Chaim Bloom and Sam Kennedy have been saying, it’s easy to understand why: Giolito is a free agent this offseason, and Bloom and company seem completely uninterested in rentals. Instead, Bloom is talking about adding to the core, meaning, in all likelihood, only going after players with several years of control remaining on their contracts.

But who exactly would those players be and what would they cost on the trading…