Red Sox send Scutaro to the Rockies

[CubsWin]

ESPN.com

 

The Boston Red Sox, looking to free up money to pursue either starting pitcher Roy Oswalt or outfielder Cody Ross, have traded shortstop Marco Scutaro to the Colorado Rockies.

 

The Red Sox received right-handed pitcher Clayton Mortensen in return. Mortensen, 26, is a former first-round sandwich pick in 2007 by St. Louis, who sent Mortensen to Oakland in the deal for outfielder Matt Holliday. The Rockies acquired Mortensen for a minor league player last January; the Red Sox become his fourth big league organization.

 

Last season, he was 2-4 with a 3.86 ERA in 16 games, six of them starts.

[Derwood]

all seems geared towards signing Oswalt

[davearm2]

Finally the Rox have a shortstop

[SweetZombieJesus]

Clearly Castro is the compensation for Theo. Stupid Cobs.

[SweetZombieJesus]

Clearly Castro is the compensation for Theo. Stupid Cobs.

[TruffleShuffle]

i think that joke was unfunny enough to only be posted once.

[Post Count Padder]

The Sox are now going into the season with Mike Aviles and Nick Punto platooning at short. Woof.

[jersey cubs fan]

Peter King didn't like it:

 

Marco Scutaro to the Rockies for Clayton Mortensen, a bottom-of-the-rotation candidate. Stupid, stupid, stupid trade.

Once the Red Sox come into play, Peter actually has opinions.

 

Did GM Ben Cherington watch the end of the Red Sox season, when Scutaro played hurt and played brilliantly — the best player on the team over the last two weeks (when the team was dying and drinking) other than Jacoby Ellsbury, at a time when too many big-money players stunk up the joint?

If you hate Scutaro, you hate America.

 

He obviously was undervalued by a team that now seems to value more the guys who drink in the clubhouse in the seventh inning than those scratching and clawing to try to win games.

Garbage in my airplane seat, traffic, bad Red Sox trades… THE WORLD IS FUCKED. I wonder what Lawrence Ferlinghetti would make of all this