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Red Sox Announce Trade With Twins After Marcelo Mayer News<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Boston Red Sox took down the Rays by a score of 4-3 on Wednesday, to give Roman Anthony a win in his first big league series after an embarrassing 10-8 loss in extra innings Monday.<\/p>\n

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Fueled by former top prospect Marcelo Mayer’s first multi-HR night, the Sox were able to win with Walker Buehler throwing seven innings of three-run ball.<\/p>\n

After the game, the Red Sox announced an intriguing trade with the Minnesota Twins for a former standout reliever.<\/p>\n

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Sep 8, 2024; Kansas City, Missouri, USA; Minnesota Twins relief pitcher Jorge Alcala (66) pitches during the seventh inning against the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

The Sox acquired reliever Jorge Alcala from the Twins in exchange for minor league third baseman Andy Lugo.<\/p>\n

Alcala, 29, has played in 166 games with the Twins since 2019, and has struggled to begin 2025. He has pitched to a monumental 8.88 ERA, which is a far-cry from his 2024 season which saw him pitch in 54 games to a 3.24 ERA.<\/p>\n

The Sox have had a bullpen problem for quite some time now, and Monday’s loss to Tampa was caused largely by a bullpen collapse, with righty reliever Zack Kelly giving up two runs in the 11th to put the Sox down for good.<\/p>\n

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The trade for Alcala gives the Red Sox another high-octane righty in the pen to lighten the load on guys like Kelly, who has a 6.61 ERA this season.<\/p>\n

In Lugo, the Twins get a power bat with some speed to him – Lugo stole 25 bases in 2024 along with a .271\/.346\/.362 slash line.<\/p>\n

Related: Red Sox Make Surprising Marcelo Mayer Announcement Before Yankees Game<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: Red Sox Pitcher’s Wild Behavior Caught on Camera During Rays Game<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jun 12, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Sox Announce Trade With Twins After Marcelo Mayer News originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The Boston Red…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[5,141,48,2542,12886,2123,55,1248,60,3736,4,297,89,2543,286,4504,5824,115,15821],"class_list":{"0":"post-97756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-red-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-red-sox","11":"tag-bostonredsox","12":"tag-jorge-alcala","13":"tag-kansas-city","14":"tag-kansas-city-royals","15":"tag-marcelo-mayer","16":"tag-minnesota-twins","17":"tag-missouri","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-rays","20":"tag-red-sox","21":"tag-redsox","22":"tag-sox","23":"tag-the-boston-red-sox","24":"tag-usa","25":"tag-walker-buehler","26":"tag-zack-kelly"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114669139301214074","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97756","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=97756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}