{"id":114590,"date":"2025-10-31T01:33:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T01:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=114590"},"modified":"2025-10-31T01:33:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T01:33:37","slug":"%f0%9f%92%a5-trade-that-could-have-shocked-the-world-one-bold-move-wouldve-changed-everything-for-the-red-sox-so-why-didnt-they-pull-the-trigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=114590","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udca5 TRADE THAT COULD HAVE SHOCKED THE WORLD: One bold move would&#8217;ve changed everything for the Red Sox \u2014 so why didn\u2019t they pull the trigger?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\">The Boston Red Sox attempted a big swing at the 2025 trade deadline, as they hoped to land Minnesota Twins pitcher Joe Ryan to help carry them through the postseason and beyond as their No. 2 starter.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\">The Twins didn\u2019t accept any of the Red Sox\u2019s significant trade offers, and they were forced to turn to the Los Angeles Dodgers to trade for Dustin May. But hours before, the Toronto Blue Jays made the deal Boston should\u2019ve done.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images2.minutemediacdn.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,x_0,y_35,w_5258,h_2957\/c_fill,w_720,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto\/images\/GettyImages\/mmsport\/14\/01k8rvg26rnxaw747fk8.jpg\" alt=\"One Trade. That's All It Would've Taken For The Red Sox to Shock The Baseball World.\" \/><figcaption>World Series \u2013 Toronto Blue Jays v Los Angeles Dodgers \u2013 Game Four<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\">The Blue Jays traded for longtime Cleveland Guardians pitcher Shane Bieber at the trade deadline, despite his injured list status. Bieber underwent Tommy John surgery just weeks into the 2024 season, and his recovery took over a year. Toronto\u2019s risk has paid off.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\">Bieber debuted on August 22 and posted a 3.57 ERA, a 1.02 WHIP, 37 strikeouts and seven walks over 40.1 innings in the regular season. He\u2019s carried his dominance into the postseason, where he\u2019s also clocked a 3.57 ERA with 18 strikeouts and six walks over four starts.\u00a0He made possibly the start of his life on October 28\u00a0when he held the Dodgers\u2019 usually gritty offense to one run on four hits in Game 4 of the World Series.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"inline-text-4\">Red Sox were interested in trading for Blue Jays starter Shane Bieber, who stunned Dodgers in World Series Game 4, at the deadline<\/h2>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\">Bieber\u2019s recovery from Tommy John surgery has gone smoother than many other pitchers who have undergone the same procedure, which the Blue Jays, Red Sox and Guardians couldn\u2019t have anticipated before the trade deadline move. It was equally risky for Boston to pursue May, who had never pitched more than 56 innings in a single season before 2025.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-lang=\"en\"><p>Embed X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\/status\/1983339552963211522\/video\/1<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\">Not only did May\u2019s stats not jump off the page,\u00a0the Red Sox seriously overpaid the Dodgers for him\u00a0\u2014 as they tend to do in their exchanges with this specific club. May clocked a 5.40 ERA and a 1.694 WHIP in the 28.1 innings he pitched with the Sox.\u00a0He also fell injured with elbow neuritis\u00a0in early September and was not available for the postseason. Boston\u2019s pitching depth was severely depleted by October, with May, Lucas Giolito, Richard Fitts, Hunter Dobbins, Tanner Houck, Kutter Crawford and Patrick Sandoval all on the IL.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\">The Red Sox were among the few teams\u00a0interested in signing Bieber before the 2025 season\u00a0while he recovered from surgery, a strategy which has become their specialty in recent seasons (even though it doesn\u2019t always work out). Had they made the move before the Jays did, maybe their playoff run would\u2019ve lasted longer than the Wild Card round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Red Sox attempted a big swing at the 2025 trade deadline, as they hoped to land Minnesota Twins pitcher Joe Ryan to help carry them through the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\ud83d\udca5 TRADE THAT COULD HAVE SHOCKED THE WORLD: One bold move would&#039;ve changed everything for the Red Sox \u2014 so why didn\u2019t they pull the trigger? - NEWS USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=114590\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\ud83d\udca5 TRADE THAT COULD HAVE SHOCKED THE WORLD: One bold move would&#039;ve changed everything for the Red Sox \u2014 so why didn\u2019t they pull the trigger? 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