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El Guapo's Ghost Rambles on about the Red Sox — I CAN’T BELIEVE…I’VE GOT MORE ON HERMIDA Christina Kahrl of Baseball Prospectus made two very good points on the Hermida trade. The first is that the newly acquired outfielder has options remaining. Hence, Hermida can be the Sox expensive fifth outfielder in Pawtucket. This trade will not have much, if any impact on finding replacements for Jason Bay and Rocco Baldelli (a.k.a. a right-handed hitting platoon partner for J.D. Drew and a backup for Jacoby Ellsbury). But it probably reduces the chance of the Sox acquiring Josh Johnson ...