Didn’t you say earlier you didn’t want him to give players away?
If no other team was willing to give up anything good for this crowd, what was he supposed to do?
And Barnes and a Perez are controlled for another season. They were trade bait, but moving them was not necessary...
But every year you rebuild becomes expensive to the team. They need to get interest back ASAP.
This year is a weird pandemic year, but if next year isn't and there is no reason to watch after July 31st, that will become a big issue...
Fangraphs gives Devers -0.1 fWAR. And a big reason has been his defensive play, which has him dead last in Defensinve runs Saved among MLB thid basemen and 16th of 18 qualifying 3B in UZR/150.
Of course, you're only comparison is of Devers to other Sox hitters. His replacement value is positional, so Peraza and Martinez, etc. are scored relative to different players than Devers...
So apparently it is Clevinger, OF Greg Allen, and PTBNL for OF Josh Naylor, RHP Cal Quantrill, RHP Joey Cantillo, SS Gabriel Arias, C Austin Hedges, and INF Owen Miller.
Seems like Preller robbed the Guardians blind...
Moreland just typifies the idea that everyone knows to trade a player when his value is high, but no one wants to because that means he is playing well...