{"id":562354,"date":"2026-02-09T13:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T13:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/562354\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T13:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T13:58:16","slug":"red-sox-reportedly-talking-trade-with-astros-cubs-for-infielder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/562354\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox Reportedly Talking Trade With Astros, Cubs For Infielder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boston Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow<\/a> continues his search for a slugging infielder<\/a> as the club prepares to report this week to Fort Myers, Fla. for spring training<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIndustry sources indicate the team is still very much in the market for another infielder, presumably one with far more offensive upside,\u201d Masslive.com\u2019s Sean McAdam <\/a>reports.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Sox continue to explore trades with the Cubs about both Nico Hoerner<\/a> and Massachusetts native Matt Shaw<\/a>,\u201d the Boston Globe\u2019s Alex Speier<\/a> reports. <\/p>\n

\u201cChicago is weighing whether to deal one of those players given a potential packed infield following the signing of (Alex) Bregman<\/a>, or keeping both and making Shaw a super-utility option. <\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to one source, the Sox are among the two or three most serious suitors for a Chicago infielder,\u201d Speier adds.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAccording to one major league source, the Sox have been \u2018persistent\u2019 in calling the Astros about third baseman Isaac Paredes<\/a>, whose tendency to pull the ball in the air as a righthanded hitter makes him an appealing fit for Fenway Park,\u201d Speier notes. \u201cHe\u2019d provide power in the middle third of their order.\u201d<\/p>\n

That syncs with what the Boston Globe\u2019s Tim Healey<\/a> is reporting.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ideal acquisition would be a right-handed infielder who plays sharp defense and actually adds to the lineup. That type of player may well be a unicorn at this point in the offseason,\u201d Healey notes.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Cubs\u2019 Nico Hoerner (strong defensively but an average track record at the plate) and Astros\u2019 Isaac Paredes (a Fenway-friendly bat who doesn\u2019t rate well defensively) are among the imperfect and probably expensive-in-a-trade candidates available to the Red Sox,\u201d Healey adds.<\/p>\n

According to The Athletic\u2019s Ken Rosenthal and Chandler Rome<\/a>, the Red Sox already came close to finding their slugging infielder of the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn another sign that the Houston Astros are trying to lessen their infield surplus, the team had serious discussions about a three-way trade in which they would have sent Isaac Paredes to Boston and acquired utilityman Brendan Donovan<\/a>,\u201d the duo writes.<\/p>\n

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\u201cDonovan ultimately went from the St. Louis Cardinals to the Astros\u2019 American League West rivals, the Seattle Mariners. The Red Sox, too, were shut out. Not only did they fail to land Paredes in the three-team deal, but a parallel attempt to acquire Donovan also sputtered, people familiar with the conversations said,\u201d Rosenthal and Rome add.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoston remains one of at least five teams engaged with the Astros about Paredes, according to multiple league sources,\u201d the pair note. \u201cAnother is the Pittsburgh Pirates, who need an upgrade at third base and tried unsuccessfully to sign free-agent Eugenio Su\u00e1rez<\/a> before his agreement with the Cincinnati Reds.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Paredes, 26, is a two-time All-Star, who hit a career-high .254<\/a> with 20 home runs and 53 RBIs last season for the Astros.<\/p>\n

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Hoerner, 28, is a two-time Gold Glove Award winner<\/a> who hit .297 in 2025 for the Cubs.<\/p>\n

Shaw, 24, finished ninth in voting last season for the National League Rookie of the Year <\/a>after hitting 13 home runs with 44 RBIs and 17 stolen bases<\/a> in 126 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow continues his search for a slugging infielder as the club…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[42,5,139,54,3211,893,4,3411,33],"class_list":{"0":"post-562354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-astros","8":"tag-astros","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-astros","12":"tag-houstonastros","13":"tag-isaac-paredes","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-mlb-rumors","16":"tag-nico-hoerner"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116041031293706584","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}