{"id":106942,"date":"2024-03-19T04:40:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T04:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mlbhi.aweu.info\/?p=106942"},"modified":"2024-03-19T04:41:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T04:41:30","slug":"red-sox-rumors-26-year-old-ace-lefty-interested-in-trade-to-boston-hong-nhung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nflquynh.aweu.info\/red-sox-rumors-26-year-old-ace-lefty-interested-in-trade-to-boston-hong-nhung\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox Rumors: 26-Year-Old Ace Lefty \u2018Interested\u2019 in Trade to Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<p>Getty\u00a0Red Sox potential trade target Jesus Luzardo<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/GettyImages-1480117902-e1710815863398.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" alt=\"Red Sox Rumors: Ace Jesus Luzardo 'Interested' in Boston trade - Heavy.com\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0Red Sox\u2019s search for an ace starting pitcher this offseason was not, of course, much of a search at all. The team signed Lucas Giolito from the\u00a0Nationals\u00a0in January to an incentive-laced deal that could have run up to three years, but he\u2019s already out for the 2024 season with elbow surgery. Giolito was not much of an ace to begin with, but now the Red Sox are without a real No. 1 starter at all.<\/p>\n<p>What to do? Well, there is a chance that a stale winter rumor could yet be revived. Three months ago, the Red Sox were frequently connected with Marlins\u00a0lefty Jesus Luzardo, who is 26 years old and still two years away from hitting unrestricted free agency.<\/p>\n<p>And while many players might be reluctant to join an increasingly moribund bunch in Boston, according to Boston Globe beat writer Julian McWilliams, Luzardo is an exception. He has spent the entirety of his\u00a0MLB\u00a0career playing for tough markets in Oakland and Miami, so suiting up for a well-attended team like the Red Sox would certainly garner his interest, should the Red Sox look to put together a trade package for him.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Jesus Luzardo \u2018Interested\u2019 in Playing for Red Sox<\/h2>\n<p>McWilliams was speaking on the\u00a0\u201cPlay Tessie\u201d podcast\u00a0 last week when the subject of the Red Sox\u2019s absence of an ace was raised. The easy fix, and the one most often mentioned by those around baseball and covering the team, would be a signing of Rangers free-agent Jordan Montgomery.<\/p>\n<p>But Montgomery after helping the Rangers to a World Series title, Montgomery is holding out for a long-term contract, especially if he is heading to a non-contender. Luzardo, though, can help immediately and has more upside than the 31-year-old Montgomery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he is a better pitcher, in terms of stuff-wise, than Jordan Montgomery is,\u201d McWilliams said. \u201cThat\u2019s a guy who\u2014I covered Jesus when he was in Oakland\u2014trust me, he would be interested in pitching. I talked to him last time when he was here and he was like, \u2018Dude, I\u2019ve never pitched in a place like this. It was an amazing experience, the mound is just different.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere would be interest on his part to be possibly dealt here but you don\u2019t know what the Red Sox are thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Working on Carrying Bigger Innings Load<\/h2>\n<p>Of course, a few things would have to fall into place before the Red Sox could get Luzardo to Boston. The Marlins would need to put him back on the trade block\u2014they never, apparently, came close to a deal involving Luzardo over the winter. And the Red Sox would need to see the value in short-term improvement while giving up some long-term assets.<\/p>\n<p>Since becoming a consistent starter for the Marlins in 2022, he has a\u00a014-17 record with a 3.52 ERA\u00a0in 50 starts, and was seventh in the National League with 208 strikeouts in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Luzardo still needs to improve on being an innings-eating No. 1 starter, but he showed those traits last year and says he is making progress this Spring\u2014even if his outing last week against the Astros found him battling from behind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout a doubt, the focal point is getting through the innings that we need to get through, attack and getting ahead,\u201d Luzardo said after that game,\u00a0per the Miami Herald. \u201cI felt like I threw strikes today, but it was mainly to get back in counts instead of getting ahead of the count.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty\u00a0Red Sox potential trade target Jesus Luzardo The\u00a0Red Sox\u2019s search for an ace starting pitcher this offseason was not, of course, much of a search at all&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":106944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nflquynh.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nflquynh.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nflquynh.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nflquynh.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nflquynh.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nflquynh.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nflquynh.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nflquynh.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nflquynh.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nflquynh.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}