BoSox Acquire David Aardsma from ChiSox
In a relatively low risk deal, the Boston Red Sox acquired right-handed reliever David Aardsma from the Chicago White Sox. Aardsma, a 2003 first rounder out of Rice, has been mediocre throughout his career in Chicago. He’s a classic, “Good Stuff, Bad Control” kind of guy with a 97 MPH fastball. At 26 years old, you’d like to think that he still has plenty of gas in the tank and that all he really needs is a change of scenery. Of course, it almost never works out that way, but as far as deals go, this one is pretty low risk. Boston gave up two, low-level prospects in Willy Mota and Miguel Socolovich. When you consider what Boston got out of last year’s “Can’t Miss” deal for Eric Gagne, I can’t imagine that Aardsma could fare much worse.
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