I believe Duran has considerable trade value as does Yorke (due to proximity to MLB). Perales is a bigger unknown as he's further away. Cease can come in and be a #2 at least for a few years. I'm not sure Perales gets there. He's probably a #4 or bullpen piece, but has a chance at being better.
It is an overpay, but I'm not saying I wouldn't overpay to fix this s***** rotation especially as names are taken off the FA market (if that makes sense).
I'd be much more interested if the Sox added Montas as the #5.
ERod
Stroman
Bello
Sale
Montas
I can talk myself into that rotation for sure. Winning a WS? IDK. I agree that they probably need some sort of ace.
Instead of Yamamoto, they sign ERod and Stroman? They are basically signing two mid to upper rotation guys? It's good. I don't believe it's a WS rotation at all. If that's the goal, they aren't getting there this year.
I don't see them adding Blaze anytime soon since he take a long time to adjust to new levels and hasn't OPS'd 700 in AA yet. The callup would be Kavadas or Scott IMO.