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<\/p>\nMany fans were concerned with how the Boston Red Sox looked to start the season, but the team has figured it out recently, going 14-11 and sitting just one game behind the New York Yankees in the American League East.<\/p>\n
The Red Sox still have some holes, whether that be in the short or long term.<\/p>\n
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After trading Kyle Teel to the Chicago White Sox for Garrett Crochet, the Red Sox are without a long-term answer at the catcher position.<\/p>\n
In a trade proposal from Heavy Sports’ Jonathan Vankin, he pitched the idea of the Red Sox trading Tanner Houck, a right-handed starter, to the Baltimore Orioles for their top prospect, Samuel Basallo.<\/p>\n
“What do the Orioles have to offer, if they wanted to extract Houck from the Red Sox?<\/strong><\/p>\n As it happens, their organizational No. 1 prospect is a catcher. Samuel Basallo, 20 years old, was signed out of the Dominican Republic in 2021 for what was then an Orioles-record signing bonus of $1.3 million…<\/p>\n “A straight up swap of Houck – who will earn a reasonable $3.95 million this year with two more seasons of team control – for the highly ranked prospect Basallo would serve the needs of both the Red Sox and the Orioles,” he wrote.<\/p>\n The Orioles are playing brutal baseball, currently 9-13 and not figuring much out on either side of the baseball. Their pitching staff is below average, something that doesn’t look like it’ll change.<\/p>\n However, given that Basallo is one of the top prospects in Major League Baseball, they might be looking for a better player than Houck in return.<\/p>\n The right-hander has been decent throughout his career, posting a 3.78 ERA in 76 starts, but he might not be good enough to warrant moving for a player of the catcher’s caliber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Many fans were concerned with how the Boston Red Sox looked to start the season, but the team has figured it out recently, going 14-11 and sitting… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50770,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"\n