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The Minnesota Twins are no longer expected to work out their part of the Mookie Betts blockbuster trade with the Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers, according to LaVelle Neal III of the Star Tribune. The Twins set a deadline of today for a resolution of the trade on their part or else they back out. The trade has been held up due to issues with the exchange of medical information of RHP Brusdar Graterol, who would've been heading to Boston. Minnesota also won't be getting RHP Kenta Maeda from the Dodgers, unless they work out a second trade without Boston.
The medical issue with Graterol is that he was projected to be a reliever instead of a starter, which isn't what the Red Sox wanted, and they reportedly asked for a second top 10 prospect in addition to Graterol, which the Twins didn't want to give up. The Twins used Graterol as a reliever last season, and the medical saga projects him as a reliever, but Graterol's agent Scott Boras said that the whole medical thing was blown out of proportion and that Graterol is perfectly capable of starting in the major leagues.
Boras told the Boston Globe's Alex Speier that "To suggest that this player is not healthy going forward, or has any form of substantive medical defect that would in any way damage his career, all of that is false. This is a scant supposition created by medical review, by someone who has never seen him physically, I don’t know Boston’s position on this. I know that people are suggesting that Graterol has some malady about him medically, which is inaccurate. That supposition is false. He is in spring training. He’s ready to throw without limitations going forward through the season. And there’s no suggestion that there’s anything at issue with this player in the current or immediate aspects of his career."
The Red Sox would've received Graterol from the Twins and Dodgers OF Alex Verdugo in the trade, but right now this trade is in jeopardy. The Red Sox and Dodgers do have other solutions however. They could add a separate 3rd team in the deal instead of the Twins, or they could work out a deal just between them, but with more prospects going to Boston in exchange for Betts and LHP David Price. The Major League Baseball Players Association has urged the teams to come to a solution on the trade.
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