The trade deadline has come and gone and we’ve now had over 24 hours to really let the way things went really sink in. That’s particularly important this year when the league as a whole went bananas leading up to the deadline with a massive number of trades. The Red Sox were, of course, active. They acquired Ian Kinsler an hour before the clock struck midnight on deadline day, and they acquired Nate Eovaldi less than a week before the deadline. Boston also traded for Steve Pearce earlier in the month, which may or may not count, but that part doesn’t really matter.
Justifying the lack of a reliever trade at the deadline
