San Diego Padres receive outfielder Jarren Duran. One proposed trade from Sportsnaut's Matt Johnson pitched the Red Sox shipping Duran to the Padres for San Diego closer Robert Suarez and a couple prospects. However, SI on Red Sox' Jackson Roberts wasn't a major advocate for that trade proposal.

Over the past few days, nearly everything has suggested that the Boston Red Sox won't even consider selling out the trade deadline, which is an auspicious sign for the organization.

The Red Sox farm system has long skewed toward position players in recent years and been light on pitching — so much so that part of hiring chief baseball officer Craig Breslow two years ago was to r...