I think those offers get hung up on pretty fast. It will absolutely take a top 100 prospect plus good lottery tickets to get Crochet at the trade deadline. If you are looking to bolster depth and quality of the middle to backend of the rotation, maybe you pivot to teammate Erick Fedde instead who is signed through 2025? It is tough to see who will be sellers at this point other than the obvious. Personally. I would add a minor piece for depth to help the remainder of the year. Flaherty? T. Anderson? Flaherty may cost more than we want for 1/2 season. If you want a big name to headline the rotation, go big for Burnes or Fried in the offseason.
Re: Crochet - he might well be the best SP available at the deadline so there will be a lot of competition for him, driving the price up, quite possibly to more than the Sox should be willing to pay.
Re: Tatis - he just went on the IL, is projected to be out 6 weeks which would bring him back right around the deadline.
My original post offered Anthony, Fitts, Sandling/Monegro, and a lottery ticket hitter -- fairly comparable to the Sale trade. Two posters shot that down as too much to pay. So I modified it to the Yorke/Lugo fronted packages and you two shot those down as too light.
But nobody offered a different set of names, and I'm interested to see if SOSH can agree to a package for a youngish frontline starter with a short track record of success (sounds like Houck) with three more years of control who might be open to an extension (non-Boras client). Or if SOSH even wants a pitcher like that.
I'd like a pitcher like that for a number of reasons:
1. A rotation of Houck, Crochet, Crawford, Bello, Pivetta is better than a rotation of Houck, Crawford, Bello, Pivetta, Winckowski/Criswell, for the drive to the playoffs and for in the playoffs (with one of Crawford, Bello, Pivetta bumped to the pen)
2. Adds a lefty to an all right-handed rotation
3. Also builds for the future, with three more years of control at just the right time for the team's current window of contention.