I love how they accuse the Sox of dealing in bad faith. As if every leaked trade doesn't have the "pending physicals" clause attached.
It is just sad how rare it is that two teams (heaven forbid three, or four if you add in the Angels) can keep a deal quiet until it is actually completed. Now Stripling and Pederson are likely annoyed, and, had the Dodgers not still traded for him, Graterol's value might have been diminished. Luckily for him he's far enough from free agency to prove his worth himself and only the Twins would have been hurt by the reduction in value.
Agreed. All of the hand-wringing comes about because the deal gets leaked prematurely, before it's actually a "deal," and then it falls apart because one team has the audacity to look at the medical records, and the records influence the team's final decision. That part IS too bad for the players involved, because, as you suggest, it could impact how other teams perceive their value (especially if they, unlike Graterol, are close to being a free agent).
This is one of the reasons why the Orioles have received so much blowback from their relatively conservative view of physical results. They have a long history of signing guys pending a physical, and then backing out or attempting to renegotiate based on their conservative view of the physical's results.
But the media and public have short or defective memories. Stuff like this happens more frequently than generally realized, because it involves different teams and different calibers of players. But there was the Jay Bruce three-team trade that got nixed a handful of years ago because one of the players (Michael Saunders?) had a knee issue disclosed in his medicals. There was a more recent deal for Carlos Gomez that blew up for similar reasons. Was there as much angst about those trade failings? I don't know, they didn't involve the Red Sox, so I paid far less attention! Which is basically my point.