Red Sox Acquire Wyatt Mills for Jacob Wallace, DFA Hosmer

Mills is kind of interesting I guess. I'm not sure I agree with the Hosmer DFA vs. Brasier or Hernandez or Ort, but I guess if they have another bench bat coming in it doesn't really matter.

Has a career negative WAR and 6.2 ERA? At 28 a light is suddenly going to go on? Bloom is like the Fred Sanford of baseball execs.

I’m a little rusty on the DFA rules. Does this mean they can place Hosmer on waivers? I know they can’t outright him to AAA (or at least he could refuse it) because of his service time

Eh, don’t really like it

Maybe he’s a good reliever next year for us though, never know with these guys

What is this team doing? Do they even know?

This sounds like a start of a series of like 10 transactions that might get us a net of 1% in the right direction. I actually really liked Hosmer at his price and thought that this would be the one possible way to screw it up.

I mean I'm kind of stuck on the idea that our 40-man is full and it surprises me that we're making room for another fringe major league reliever (in addition to Brasier, Taylor, Ort, Kelly, Darwinzon, German, Winckowski, et al.). Thats a lot of 40-man space to spend of fringe major league relief when we still need to add ideally 3 impact players to field a competitive playoff caliber team. Clearly they see something they like to make this move, and I'll give them some benefit of the doubt in terms of identifying something useful in Mills. The 40 man construction and distribution is definitely puzzling to me though.

Hosmer is more valuable. I don't get the logic. If any exists. So the net return for Jay Groome is this Jag

The primary gain is the 36.78mil of extra luxury tax space they gained over the next 3 seasons due to San Diego paying off Hosmer's contract.

There really must be something coming. They’ve been almost dead silent since X left. Couple of very minor moves until this one (I guess you can count the Downs DFA but I mean…Idk how many of us had any faith there left).

If there isn’t and this was done because they don’t care at all for Hosmer and really like Mills…it’s kind of a head scratcher to me. It’s hard to believe they would really like Mills all that much but as a couple people have posted in this thread there is some evidence there’s real talent there to be unlocked. Around the same age we got Schreiber I think? Mills might be a year or so older actually.

Maybe I’m just desperate for something to happen, some talent to get brought in. I mean I am. But maybe this trade really did happen without anything else lined up.

Edit to say it just occurred to me that if something else were coming, maybe you wouldn’t include Mills because now they have to put him on the 40 man and if they try and sneak him through, my gut says he’s snagged. So it’s not clearing 40 man space. Maybe the simplest explanation really is that they liked Mills a lot, don’t like Hosmer, believe a ton in Casas, and did it now before they try and do anything else all that serious?