How do we kill the Triston Casas trade rumors? Push them off a cliff? Tempt them with a poison apple? Hire one of those guys from Michael Clayton and make it look like an accident?* Someone please do something!
(*RIP Tom Wilkinson, may heaven provide you with a never-ending supply of fresh baguettes.)
While Craig Breslow said on the record — just last week! — that the Sox are not shopping Casas, MassLive reports today that “there remains a belief in the industry that the Red Sox remain open to trading Casas, potentially for young pitching, to facilitate other roster maneuvering.