Cespedes Headed to the Motor City

  

          

Yoenis Cespedes is headed to his third team this year. On Thursday afternoon multiple reports had him going to Detroit in exchange for starting pitcher, Rick Porcello.This is an equal echange for both the Red Sox and the Tigers as Boston was looking for a new ace after losing out in the Jon Lester sweepstakes. While Detroit was looking for another big bat to help compliment the former Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera. 

In addition to Yoenis heading to Detroit, Boston also gave up right handed reliever Alex Wilson along with right handed pitcher Gabe Speier according to Jon Morosi of Fox Sports. Within the past two days the Red Sox have bolstered their lineup with two experienced pitchers, Porcello and Wade Miley from the Diamondbacks. These two proven pitchers should improve a lineup in which most people called an inexperienced lineup a season ago. 

As for the Tigers, according to general manager Dave Dombrowski via Bob Nightengale of USA Today Sports, the Tigers are no longer pursuing Max Scherzer. The former Cy Young winner is seeking a contract up to $200 million and it proved to be too high of a demand for the Tigers. Letting go of Porcello and no longer negotiating with Scherzer may leave the Tigers with a rotation not as strong as what used to be considered the deepest rotation in baseball.

Justin Verlander is also a concern as he proved to struggle this past year while David Price is going to be a free agent after the 2015 season. To sum up the pitiching problems for the Tigers, Anibal Sanchez suffered multiple injuries that kept him on the DL a number of times in 2014. As today's trade filled some holes on both teams' rosters, the Red Sox and Tigers still have some work to do this offseason.