Tuesday at the Winter Meetings brought a Chris Sale trade. But not to the Nationals.
Sale is headed to Boston, dealt to the Red Sox in exchange for top prospect Yoan Moncada, Michael Kopech, Luis Alexander Basabe and Victor Diaz. Soxprospects.com ranked Moncada the team’s top prospect (plenty of arguments he was the top prospect in baseball heading into 2017), Kopech at No. 5, Basabe at No. 7 and Diaz off the board.
So, say the Phillies wanted in … it would’ve probably taken something like Vince Velasquez, Jorge Alfaro, Roman Quinn and Jake Thompson.