Red Sox pitching prospect reflects back on 2022 trade
The trade deadline is rapidly approaching on July 30, and the Red Sox are in the playoff hunt, occupying the third Wild Card spot in the American League.
As fans eagerly anticipate Boston adding to its roster for a playoff push into October, one Red Sox minor leaguer reflects on his 2022 trade that sent him to Boston.
The Red Sox acquired right-handed pitcher Taylor Broadway and catcher Reese McGuire at the trade deadline from the White Sox for southpaw reliever Jake Diekman on August 30, 2022. Broadway, who is currently on the injured list recovering from offseason Tommy John surgery, reflected on the trade that sent him to the Red Sox.
“I think you don't really expect it, right? I mean, it's one of those things where it's like, okay, you're in this organization (White Sox), and maybe even the way I thought about it was like, oh, that'll never be me. You know, one of those kind of things where you're like, that won't happen,” Broadway said on the To the Show We Go Podcast.
“No way that's going to happen to me. The White Sox drafted me, I’m with the White Sox through and through. You're a White Sox. Until you wake up or it's postgame one day and you get called in the manager's office. You're told going to you got traded the Red Sox,” added Broadway.
The righty split time between the WooSox and Portland Sea Dogs last season. He posted a 6.34 ERA in 22 games before he was sent back to Double-A. Broadway, who is from Alabama, got his first taste in the Northeast following the trade.
“You're going to Portland, or I get a call and tell me I'm going to Portland. So from Alabama. Yeah, I mean, just complete difference,” said Broadway.
With the deadline looming, Broadway says the players don’t really focus on the what-if’s around potential trades, and if anyone is traded, you really don’t expect it.
“I think for I can't speak on behalf of like maybe some of the top of the top prospects, which, you know, those are probably more so the guys that get in those blockbuster trades,” said Broadway. “I guess you would call them hypotheticals. Yeah, I don't really know. But I think for the majority of us, it's it just kind of you don't.
Yeah, you don't expect it.”
