32 Million, 4-Time All-Star Would ‘Be Happy to Be Traded’ From Red Sox: Insider
Despite their winning record up to this point in the season, the Boston Red Sox will have a hard time finishing the year at the top of a division that also features the New York Yankees and Baltimore Orioles, two of the top three teams in the league.
And as a potential postseason run seems to slip out of the team’s grasp, MLB insider Jon Heyman projected that closer Kenley Jansen would prefer to finish the year with a different uniform on.
“Well, the Red Sox have a winning record right now but it doesn’t look like they are trying to win that division and I think he’d be happy to be traded at this point,” Heyman said during a livestream posted to X by Bleacher Report. “I know that he went to Boston figuring it would be a team that would contend.”
The Boston Red Sox Might Trade Kenley Jansen to the Los Angeles Dodgers
Heyman identified Jansen as a possible trade target for the Los Angeles Dodgers, a team that seems destined to make the postseason despite a relief corps that holds a 4.18 ERA and has given up the seventh-most hits in MLB.
“Kenley Jansen is the one that comes to mind” as a trade candidate for the Dodgers, Heyman said. “He was a long-time Dodger, started with the Dodgers, doesn’t seem really in place now with the Red Sox.”
f a further drift from postseason contention pushes the Red Sox to listen on more offers for Jansen, or the pitcher’s desire to be traded bubbles over into something more demanding, the Dodgers might have to come up with an attractive package to win him amid other contenders.
