{"id":473636,"date":"2025-12-26T21:50:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T21:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/473636\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T21:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T21:50:14","slug":"brayan-bello-receiving-trade-interest-from-rival-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/473636\/","title":{"rendered":"Brayan Bello Receiving Trade Interest From Rival Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Red Sox have gotten a lot of calls about right-hander Brayan Bello<\/a><\/strong>, according to The Athletic\u2019s Ken Rosenthal and Will Sammon<\/a>.\u00a0 The source who shared this information with Rosenthal\/Sammon pushed back, however, on the idea that the Sox had \u201cquietly shopped\u201d Bello themselves, as one rival executive framed the situation.<\/p>\n

On paper, it would seem odd that the Red Sox are trying to move Bello when they\u2019ve spent most of the offseason trying to reinforce their rotation.\u00a0 Bello is coming off a season that saw him post a 3.35 ERA over a career-best 166 2\/3 innings, and the righty has tossed 486 games over 87 games (86 of them starts) for the Sox over the last three years.<\/p>\n

Back in March 2024, the Red Sox showed their commitment to Bello by locking him up to a six-year, $55MM extension covering the 2024-29 seasons, and Boston holds a $21MM club option Bello for the 2030 season that includes a $1MM buyout.\u00a0 Bello doesn\u2019t even return 27 until May, so between his age and the long-term contract, it would seem like the Red Sox have a homegrown arm locked into the rotation for at least the remainder of the decade.<\/p>\n

As Rosenthal and Sammon point out, however, it makes some sense that the Red Sox might at least be testing the waters about what they could get for Bello, given the value of controllable starting pitching.\u00a0 Even if \u201ccontrol\u201d in this sense reflects Bello\u2019s extension rather than a player\u2019s arbitration or pre-arb years, Bello\u2019s remaining price tag of $50.5MM over the next four seasons seems like a fair price, and potentially even still a bargain.<\/p>\n

While Bello has been solid over his four MLB seasons, it can be argued that the Red Sox were hoping for a bit more from a pitcher who posted much bigger strikeout numbers in the minors.\u00a0 In the Show, Bello has only a 19.8% strikeout rate over 543 1\/3 career innings, and his 17.7K% this season was the lowest of his career.\u00a0 He has an unspectacular 8.3% career walk rate to go along with that lack of missed bats.<\/p>\n

Bello has gotten good bottom-line results by limiting hard contact, and inducing a lot of grounders, with a 52.7% groundball rate for his career.\u00a0 His 95.2 mph fastball has solid velocity but Bello\u2019s sinker is his primary pitch, even if the sinker\u2019s effectiveness hasn\u2019t tended to vary in consistency.\u00a0 Over his career, Bello\u2019s 4.09 ERA isn\u2019t much below his 4.26 SIERA, but that gap stretched much wider (3.35 to 4.55) in 2025.<\/p>\n

The Red Sox entered the offseason with plenty of big league-ready or experienced arms in their organization, but there was a clear goal of raising the rotation\u2019s ceiling with more established hurlers.\u00a0 To date, Sonny Gray<\/a><\/strong> and Johan Oviedo<\/a><\/strong> have been brought in via trades with the Cardinals and Pirates, respectively, and now project to be part of Boston\u2019s 2026 rotation.\u00a0 Richard Fitts<\/a><\/strong> and left-handed pitching prospect Brandon Clarke<\/a><\/strong> were dealt to St. Louis for Gray, lower-level righty Jesus Travieso<\/a><\/strong> was moved to Pittsburgh as part of the Oviedo trade, plus Boston sent right-hander Hunter Dobbins<\/a><\/strong> and two more lower-level arms to the Cardinals in a separate trade for first baseman Willson Contreras<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Whether the Red Sox are actually trying to actively trade Bello or are just listening to offers out of due diligence remains unclear, as the Rosenthal\/Sammon item implies.\u00a0 The truth may lie somewhere in between all of the common offseason hot stove terminology.\u00a0 Still, Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow<\/a><\/strong> has said<\/a> his team is open to moving controllable pitching \u201cin order to address other areas of the roster.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trading Bello would be a much different animal than moving a pitcher like Fitts or Dobbins or someone else not even guaranteed of a big league job in 2026, yet in a sense, a Bello deal would be an elevated version of the raise-the-ceiling strategy.\u00a0 If the front office has some misgivings over Bello\u2019s ability to sustain his production, or he is no longer viewed as a pitcher who can reliably be counted on for a playoff rotation, the Red Sox could potentially look to deal Bello.\u00a0 Speculatively, he could be dealt for a more clear-cut frontline pitcher with fewer years of control, or perhaps moved to address a need in the lineup.<\/p>\n

Within that same notes post, Rosenthal and Sammon also write that the Red Sox remain engaged with the Cardinals about Brendan Donovan<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 Boston is one of many teams linked to Donovan\u2019s market, however, and the most recent reports suggested that the Mariners and Giants were the favorites<\/a> to pry Donovan away from St. Louis.\u00a0 That said, Cards president of baseball operations Chaim Bloom has shown plenty of willingness to swing trades with his former Boston team, and Bloom\u2019s time running the Sox front office overlapped with a big chunk of Bello\u2019s career.\u00a0 Speculatively, the length of Bello\u2019s extension could make him a factor in a Cardinals rotation even after the team is through its rebuild period, even if the Cardinals are more likely to explore higher-end prospects in any Donovan trade package.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Red Sox have gotten a lot of calls about right-hander Brayan Bello, according to The Athletic\u2019s Ken…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":473637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[77247,1266,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-473636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-brayan-bello","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115788082366990095","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}