Gresh & Fauria: Lou Merloni on James Paxton

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00:00The news that has just broke is that it looks like the Red Sox

00:04are going to get James Paxton, who was DFA'd by the Dodgers.

00:09I'm assuming this is a pretty simple transaction, cash,

00:13or it's just, hey, we'll take him off your hands.

00:15This doesn't cost the Red Sox really anything, does it?

00:18Yeah, we'll see who's available, I mean, who they gave up for him,

00:21if anybody.

00:22It's like a million and a half dollars, basically,

00:24they take on.

00:24It's nothing big.

00:25But that was really more of a paper transaction.

00:28The Dodgers knew that he had some interest from other teams.

00:32They also knew that they DFA, and they have seven days

00:34to trade him, which takes them right to the deadline.

00:36And they needed to activate Glasnow and Kershaw,

00:38and they had a couple other guys coming off.

00:40So it's more of a roster crunch.

00:41So it's not like he's just free, because they released him.

00:44They released him knowing they were

00:45going to be able to trade him, and there

00:46would be competition for him.

00:47But listen, we saw him the other day.

00:50He looked OK in that game.

00:51But this isn't going out there and getting a front line

00:55guy here for the stretch.

00:56To me, this is kind of getting some depth in the hopes

00:58that he can kind of fill a fifth spot.

01:00And I think you continue to look in the starter market.

01:03Lou, I'm sure we'll get into the Cora in a minute.

01:06But everybody now, I think, with Cora signing an extension

01:10assumes that means he believes the team is invested

01:12in the present and the future, and that

01:14means they're going to be buyers.

01:16This does not qualify as buying, right?

01:20This is dipping your toe in it.

01:22This is sort of like, well, we need something.

01:24Let's start now.

01:25And this is what I'm saying.

01:26Sometimes you're like, if you're working on something,

01:29maybe bigger, maybe a starting pitcher that's

01:31got control for the next two or three years,

01:33and it doesn't work out, and you're sort of left with nothing.

01:37I mean, Fresno comes out, and he's like, yeah,

01:39we're going to try to improve this team.

01:40Well, the minute you say that, that

01:42puts heat on yourself to go out and actually do that.

01:45So this, to me, is sort of dipping your toe in it

01:47and getting a body, getting a guy that

01:49can start every fifth day, and you just sort of go from there.

01:53But hopefully, there's more.

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