The trade that failed.
The blockbuster trade for Chris Sale has all the possibility of catapulting the Red Sox into the World Series. Sale is the real deal in every possible definition of it in baseball pitching terms. He is young, signed, and a routine choice for the upper echelon of being anointed a Cy Young Award. That has me firmly wearing my worry beads into pea size grains.
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This is too good to be true, so I expect something to go wrong. The accumulation of innings simply causes the eventual you know what. Maybe a less disastrous event such as the hamstring injury that continues on until the next ice age arrives. Maybe just nothing. In the parlance of noted Red Sox observers, he may just suddenly “suck.”
Let’s for the sake of debate say that Sale performs as expected and the Red Sox go into a three and done again in the playoffs. And to continue to abuse Nostradamus – Yoan Moncada has suddenly been the talk of baseball and becomes Rookie of the Year. That is the famed “Double Tap” or “Double Whammy” that all will dread. The Red Sox need a quality year from Sale and that means going deep into the playoffs.