UPDATE: Olney just killed everyone?s buzz. BUT I STILL BELIEVE, MAN!
2:01 PM: This sounds like a total hot mess of a trade rumor, but I freakling LOVE hot messes, so:
Nightengale has updated it with a longer story citing three sources. Wowzers. Where to begin.
On a dollars and cents scale, this would easily be one of the biggest trades in baseball history, as Crawford, Ramirez and Bell are owed nearly $240 million among them. ?It would also involve a big problem (Bell stinks this year) a lesser, but more chronic problem (Ramirez?s increasingly erratic production and always interesting attitude) and an absolute sell-low guy (Crawford, who is TWO GAMES back from injuries and still near the beginning of a monster deal).
Given the ascension of Will Middlebrooks, this would certainly mean that Ramirez would be a shortstop again. Which would make his bat more valuable, but it?s a position one wonders how long he can handle. Crawford?s game may be better suited to Marlins Park, but again, why the Red Sox would give up on him now when his stock can only rise? It?s not like the Marlins are going to take that whole contract on, are they?
Such a trade would raise more questions than it would answer. I don?t get it, and I suspect that this is just one of those things people shoot the breeze about more than they seriously contemplate it.
But if it were to happen? Wow!
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