The Boston Red Sox traded short stop Marco Scutaro to the Colorado Rockies for pitcher Clayton Mortensen. I find it a little odd for the Sox to trade a league-average (if not a top 10) short stop when they don't necessarily have a short stop for a decent-at-best-pitcher in Mortensen, but it sounds like this is a move to free up money for Roy Oswalt.
It's not every day that you hear the Red Sox needing to trade away salary to afford bargain priced Roy Oswalt ($8 million), but it's apparently what's in store. If the Red Sox sign Oswalt, this trade should be fine as they have bigger holes in the rotation over their potential short stop platoon (Nick Punto/Mike Aviles). However, if they don't sign Oswalt, this trade would have to be considered a loss for the Red Sox, because they would have essentially traded their starting short stop for nothing (my apologies Clayton Mortensen).
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