When the Red Sox did not add a reliever at the trade deadline, many of us were upset at Dave Dombrowski once again ignoring a clear and obvious hole on this roster. He spoke with the media that day and gave a lot of reasons for the lack of a move. Among them was that they were adding an impact arm to their relief corps, it just came in the form of a player already in the organization. That addition, of course, was Nathan Eovaldi.
To be fair to Dombrowski, who had many of his answers following the deadline fall totally flat, there was reason to be excited about Eovaldi.