{"id":38389,"date":"2025-03-03T22:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T22:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=38389"},"modified":"2025-03-03T22:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T22:25:13","slug":"red-sox-accused-of-misleading-core-players-on-trade-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=38389","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox Accused of \u2018Misleading Core Players\u2019 on Trade Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Red-Sox-Misleading-Core-Players.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Red-Sox-Misleading-Core-Players.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Red-Sox-Misleading-Core-Players.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Red-Sox-Misleading-Core-Players.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Red Sox Accused of \u2018Misleading Core Players\u2019 on Trade Plans\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Since the offseason began, rumors that the Red Sox 25-year-old first baseman Triston Casas was about to be traded seemed like the most frequent source of buzz around the Boston team. But Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow repeatedly denied that Casas was being offered to other teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not totally sure where it comes from,\u201d Breslow said in late December. \u201cWe\u2019re not shopping Triston. We see him as a guy that can hit in the middle of the lineup for a really long time here in Boston.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But according to a December 26 report by Mark Feinsand of MLB.com, Breslow\u2019s denials were not entirely true. Feinsand reported that, even after acquiring lefty Garrett Crochet in a trade with the Chicago White Sox, the Red Sox were still in the market for a second starting pitcher and attempted to set up a deal with the Seattle Mariners that would bring righty Luis Castillo to Boston.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut according to sources, the Mariners wanted Triston Casas back in a trade, something the Red Sox were unwilling to do unless Seattle took back Masataka Yoshida, who has three years and $55.8 million remaining on his contract,\u201d Feinsand reported at the time.<\/p>\n<h2>Casas Reportedly Offered in Trade Despite Team Denial<\/h2>\n<p>In other words, Casas was being offered by the Red Sox as trade bait \u2014 an allegation <em>MassLive<\/em> Red Sox beat writer Chris Cotillo appeared to support when on January 5 he wrote, \u201cthere\u2019s still a strong industry belief that Triston Casas is very much available.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m aware Breslow seemed to dismiss it,\u201d Cotillo continued, referring to the Casas trade allegation. \u201cHis dismissal does not discount the fact executives with other teams have been told he\u2019s available.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>About a week later, Cotillo quoted Casas himself dismissing the trade rumors as \u201cclickbait,\u201d because \u201cthey\u2019ve told me that none of the rumors are true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What was going on? Were the Red Sox misleading their own players? Writing on Saturday, Nat Gordon \u2014 co-host of the WEEI-affiliated podcast <em>Play Tessie<\/em> \u2014 seemed to think so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot sure how much I love the pattern of the FO [front office] misleading their core players,\u201d Gordon wrote. \u201cRemember when Triston Casas said they told him the widely reported trade rumors were nonsense?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cpattern\u201d Gordon was referring to included both the Casas trade rumors, and third baseman Rafael Devers claim that when he signed his franchise-record 11-year, $331 million contract extension in January of 2023, the Red Sox promised him that the third base position was his.<\/p>\n<p>That is why, Devers said in February, he refused to become a full-time designated hitter when the Red Sox signed former Houston Astros third baseman Alex Bregman to a three-year, $120 million deal at the outset of Spring Training this year.<\/p>\n<h2>Unclear if Red Sox Misled Devers About Third Base<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cThat was definitely was discussed when I signed, that I would be playing this position for a long time,\u201d Devers said after the Bregman signing, as quoted by Cotillo. \u201cI don\u2019t know what caused the change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked about Devers\u2019 comments, manager Alex Cora said, \u201cDifferent people here. There is a different leader here. Chaim is in St. Louis now.\u201d He was referring to Chaim Bloom, Breslow\u2019s predecessor who negotiated with Devers on the 2023 contract extension. Bloom is now in the St. Louis Cardinals front office and is set to become president of baseball operations there in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>But Cora, perhaps significantly, did not deny that the Red Sox had made the promise about the third base position to Devers. On the other hand, given that Devers\u2019 contract takes him through his age 36 season in 2033, it seems unlikely that the Red Sox would make an open-ended promise to him that the third base job would be his for the duration of his Red Sox tenure.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Vankin JONATHAN VANKIN is an award-winning journalist and writer who now covers baseball and other sports for Heavy.com. He twice won New England Press Association awards for sports feature writing. Vankin is also the author of five nonfiction books on a variety of topics, as well as nine graphic novels including most recently &#8220;Last of the Gladiators&#8221; published by Dynamite Entertainment. More about Jonathan Vankin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the offseason began, rumors that the Red Sox 25-year-old first baseman Triston Casas was about to be traded seemed like the most frequent source of buzz around the Boston team. 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