Sometimes you spend a lot of Tuesday afternoon talking with team officials about the logic behind trade targets rarely getting scratched from lineups until a deal is pretty close, in anticipation of a full afternoon of loyal Sox Machine readers wondering why on Earth the team would risk starting Adrian Houser the day before the trade deadline.
Only for the team to go ahead and just scratch the guy from his start, the day before the deadline. And in explaining the decision to swap out Houser for a Tyler Alexander-led bullpen game, Will Venable didn’t bother hiding the ball.
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