Let’s take a look at the stat lines of a couple of left-handed pitchers over the last five years. Each has been traded in the last 13 months:
In addition to both of these guys being exceptional when on mound and not being able to toe the rubber very often, they both have two years of team control left before they can make the decision to test free agency.
One of them was traded by the Red Sox in exchange for Vaughn Grissom; the other was traded to the Red Sox in exchange for Kyle Teel, Braden Montgomery, Chase Meidroth and Wikelman Gonzalez.