After the Boston Red Sox's failed push for Joe Ryan under a half an hour before the MLB trade deadline, chief baseball officer Craig Breslow had to do something. He called up the Los Angeles Dodgers and traded for starting pitcher Dustin May to deepen his rotation.
The trade has gone poorly for Boston — about as poorly as all the rest of its trades with LA tend to do. Not only was May having a rough year in the Dodgers' rotation, he'd already surpassed his career high in innings and Breslow sent James Tibbs III, one of the returns from the Rafael Devers trade, to LA for, essentially, a DFA candidate.