Yordan Alvarez emerges as top Red Sox trade target amid Astros’ early struggles
With the Sox offense at its lowest, Alvarez could be the man to save it.
Yordan Alvarez emerges as top Red Sox trade target amid Astros’ early struggles originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The Boston Red Sox are teetering on the edge right now, being a few losses away from entering total panic mode.
The Sox are 9-15, in dead last in the AL East, and six games behind first place, currently held by their eternal rivals, the New York Yankees . After two poor offensive performances by Boston, the Yankees are looking to sweep the Sox tonight . If that happens, the Sox will need to make a trade for an offensive powerhouse if they want any chance of staying in the playoff race.
Slumping Astros could look to deal Yordan Alvarez © Thomas Shea-Imagn Images With the Houston Astros basically in the same boat as the Sox, Bleacher Report’s Zachary D. Rymer believes that the Sox have the assets to make a deal for their superstar DH , Yordan Alvarez “Alvarez is the game-changer the Red Sox need to lift their offense and get them out of a pattern of close games. He's also one of few hitters who could match up with Aaron Judge if an October grudge match with the Yankees comes to fruition,” Rymer wrote.
Alvarez is the solution to all the Sox’ offensive woes © Troy Taormina-Imagn Images Right now, the Red Sox rank in the bottom five for total runs and runs batted in (RBI). They also are tied second for last in on base percentage plus slugging (OPS), and are dead last in home runs . Alvarez could almost single-handedly fix that.