Red Sox don’t need to make a trade, but latest Phillies rumor suggests they should originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
With how things currently stand, the Boston Red Sox are probably the one team in the American League East that has no business making a trade at the deadline. If the Red Sox are smart, they'll probably chalk this up to a brutal and weird season and try to go from there. That doesn't mean that's the right decision, but it's probably what the Red Sox should do.
In another world, there are definitely some who believe the Red Sox need to make the necessary additions to improve their roster.
Boston has been searching for a third baseman for the better part of the past few months, as it traded Rafael Devers and didn't re-sign Alex Bregman in free agency.
Bleacher Report recently put together a list of trade candidates, naming Philadelphia Phillies third baseman Alec Bohm as a potential option.
If that happens, the Red Sox should at least put their name in the hat and see what Philadelphia would want in return.
“As with the Mets and Peralta, a selling Phillies team would have an absurd trade chip in Zack Wheeler ($42M in each of 2026 and 2027). With wins in seven of their last nine games, though, the Phillies are back enough from the dead that we'd better press pause on any further speculation on that front.
“They might give up the ghost on Alec Bohm, though, regardless of whether they're buying or selling. The classic "needs a change of scenery" trade candidate hasn't homered since Opening Day,” Kerry Miller of BR wrote.
Bohm is one of those guys who definitely isn't going to be a guaranteed star in Boston, or even a league-average player.
However, he's proven at times throughout his career that he can be a really good player, and the Red Sox simply need to find somebody who has some talent to potentially play the position in the long term.
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