When the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs finally settled on compensation for Theo Epstein, there was one piece that hadn’t been settled yet. The player-to-be-named-later that was going to the Cubs.
Well that issue was settled on Thursday as the Red Sox sent minor league first baseman Jair Bogaerts to the Cubs. The Red Sox had already received pitchers Chris Carpenter and Aaron Kurcz.
If the last name Bogaerts sounds familiar it’s because his twin brother Xander Bogaerts is one of the top prospects in the Red Sox organization.
Ironically enough, the trade happens one day after Carpenter announced on Twitter that he was having surgery to remove a bone spur from his elbow. And apparently this was a new injury to his elbow as he had passed physicals from both the Cubs and Red Sox.
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