Red Sox to land $260 million dollar third baseman and All-Star reliever in proposed blockbuster trade

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The Boston Red Sox have two boxes left to check to consider this offseason a huge success: getting a right-handed slugger, and another high-impact reliever. So far, they’ve had no luck, but with this proposed trade by WEEI’s Play Tessie, they could knock it out of the park. In it, they would get St. Louis Cardinals’ Nolan Arenado and Ryan Helsley, two studs that solve every Sox problem. The trade would look like this:

Red Sox get: Nolan Arenado, Ryan Helsley

Cardinals get: Ceddanne Rafaela, Zach Penrod

This past season. Both of these players were great. Arenado hit .272/.325/.394/.719 with 23 doubles and 16 homers last season, and Hesley pitched in 65 games, posting a 2.04 ERA, 49 saves, 79 strikeouts, and a WHIP of 1.101.

Would the Sox do this trade? Honestly, if the Cardinals are down, the Sox should be as well. The Cards would get Rafaela, who is a potential superstar to be their star of the future, and Penrod, who has proven he might be a star in the making as well. Both have a lot of control, and the Cards can move off of Arenado’s contract to fully commit to the rebuild.