#43 SAN DIEGO — The good news for the Red Sox is that they sti

SAN DIEGO The good news for the Red Sox is that they still have a lot of outfield depth available to make trades.Wednesday nights reported acquisition of Wade Miley from the Diamondbacks for Rubby De La Rosa, Allen Websterand a minor leaguer makes sense insofar as the left-hander has the ability to chew up a lot of innings. He also has the ability to https://www.shoptetitans.com/Leshaun_Sims_Jersey.NFL get chewed up and spit out at Fenway Park.Miley has a good ground ball-to-fly ball ratio, 1.64 for his career, but that does not mean he is invulnerable to home runs. In 2014, he served up 23 dingers, sixth-most in the National League. He also gets in trouble with a high walk rate, having i sued 75 this year to rank fifth in the Senior Circuit. The 22 wild pitches https://www.shoptetitans.com/Tajae_Sharpe_Jersey.NFL that Miley has thrown over the past two seasons are indicative of control i sues that have been a problem since the southpaw was an All-Star as a rookie in 2012.It is po sible that the Red Sox believe they know how to get Mileys control on track, and to help him keep the ball in the park. Hes also someone who comes to Fenway having allowed a .746 OPS to right-handed batters in his career, including a .752 mark this year.To compare Miley to Jon Lester on a wide level is unfair, because the Red Sox were chasing their former ace to become their ace again, while Miley should be a mid-rotation starter once all is said and done. Part of the reason that Lester was succe sful at Fenway, though, is that he handles hitters from each side of the plate about the same he has a .698 https://www.shoptetitans.com/Malcolm_Butler_Jersey.NFL /.680 righty/lefty OPS split for his career. Mileys is .746/.667.The prospect of Miley squaring off against, say, the Blue Jays, with Jose Bautista, Josh Donaldsonand Edwin Encarnacion should be terrifying to the Red Sox, yet here they are welcoming the 28-year-old to the fold.The Red Sox wind up with Miley, Clay Buchholzand https://www.shoptetitans.com/Ben_Jones_Jersey.NFL Joe Kelly as sure bets for their rotation, with the competition for the No. 5 starter likely to be between Anthony Ranaudo and Brandon Workman, a suming that Boston brings in one more arm. In a world without this trade, and in which the Red Sox added two top-flight pitchers probably one by free agency and one by a trade from the clubs outfield surplus the rotation would have shaped up as the imports, Buchholz, Kellyand a four-way competition for the No. 5 spot, with the losers being viable candidates for bullpen spots.A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, but https://www.shoptetitans.com/Derrick_Henry_Jersey.NFL sometimes the bird in your hand leaves you a little present. This trade has the look of the Red Sox getting itchy to do something after losing out on Lester. That is not good busine s.