I’ve been waiting for this tweet from the moment all that chaos erupted last night:
#Reds lineup: Hamilton CF Votto 1B Frazier 3B Phillips 2B Bruce RF Byrd LF Pena C Cozart SS Marquis P
— C. Trent Rosecrans (@ctrent) April 21, 2015
First response I saw:
So…is Devin Mesoraco available? https://t.co/J4qLHMLKYO
— D.J. Short (@djshort) April 21, 2015
Too soon, man. Too soon.
Bob Nightengale of USA Today reports that the Red Sox are “openly listening” to offers for Rick Porcello. He says that the idea is to shed some salary for bullpen help, though just yesterday Dave Dombrowski said he was not planning on spending a lot of money on the bullpen this winter so who friggin’ knows?
Porcello posted a 4.28 ERA in 33 starts this past season. He is owed $21 million in 2019 and will be a free agent this time next year. Seems hard to imagine a deal that makes sense for him, but I suppose anything can happen.
