Does he? Do you know he knows that? Do I know you know he knows that? [Well, that's what I'm pointing out here.]
I'll acknowledge that at one point a few weeks back, when the Red Sox probably offered Espinoza or an Espinoza-led package for Sale, the White Sox probably turned it down and said you need to include one (or both) of Moncada/Benintendi. And DD probably decided he'd rather roll the dice with the Pomeranz proposal he had in hand rather than wait to see if things changed closer to the deadline.
But I'm not at all sure that an Espinoza-led package might not be adequately appealing to the White Sox today. [Espinoza-Devers-EdRo-Swihart -- I don't know that might get it done.]
At this second, with three uninspiring Pomeranz starts under the Red Sox belt, it looks unfortunate that DD jumped, but I don't want to be unfair with the 20/20 hindsight as it made sense to me at the time. If, God forbid, Pomeranz never gets past John Burkett-level performances, then we'll all have a right to bitch, particularly at the scouts who felt Pomeranz's success would translate.