The Red Sox looked like sellers when they carry Rafael Devers away – now they used the return package to buy in the Trade Deadline more than a month later.
The Red Sox reinforced their starting rotation only a few minutes before Thursday’s deadline from 6 pm Acquiring Dustin can of the Dodgers – With the help of a top perspective James Tibbs III – a piece from the Devers trade.
The 27-year-old may have already thrown a career-high 104 innings this season after fighting for a large part of his career.
As soon as the top perspective of Los Angeles made the pitching of the third round 2016 his MLB debut made in 2019.
May placed a 3.63 ERA in 14 performances are Rookie season and a 2.57 ERA in 12 performances in his second year.
Nevertheless, in year 3 the Tommy John operation can undergo only five starts before he needed a procedure on the elbow in 2023. In 2024 he was the culprit of a wild scenario in which he needed esophageal surgery after he had a piece of lettuce in his throat.
The last start of May as a Dodger came against the Red Sox on Sunday in his new house from Fenway Park. The 6-foot-7 right-handed threw five innings and allowed four points on the way to a loss.
In exchange for the right of the Dodgers, the Red Sox Outfield forward -looking Tibbs and Zach Ehrhard sent.
Tibbs checked in as Boston’s no. 5 prospect and Ehrhard nr. 27, According to MLB Pipeline.
Tibbs is a former pick of the first round, while the Giants selected him with the 13th General Pick in 2024, which came to Boston as the headliner in the Devers Blockbuster.
Tibbs has hit .232 with a .760 Ops over 87 games in High-A and Double-A in 2025.
Ehrhard was a fourth round pick through the Red Sox in 2024 after rejecting signing as a 13th rounder in 2021.
This season he has reached Double-A after stamping in High-A with a .342 average EN .930 Ops. When reaching the next level, Ehrhard .227 hit with a .717 Ops.
The Red Sox has gone 22-15 since the actions of Devers, and they hope that May will help them get closer to the Al East, where they are five games back from the Blue Jays.
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