The Boston Red Sox have been active in the starting pitcher trade market — as nearly everybody predicted — just not for the type of players everybody expected.
In the last two weeks, Boston has acquired two pitchers, 36-year-old Sonny Gray and 27-year-old Johan Oviedo. Neither are the type of pitcher that is a typical No. 2 starter that Red Sox Nation was hoping for.
That doesn't mean the book is closed on that type of move, though, but moves around the league that happened in the days just after those trades were made make the trades make more sense.