It's not out of the question that the Red Sox will figure things out and continue to play the way they have. They're 7.5 games behind the first-place New York Yankees in the American League East, and it's still very early. If they have a stretch of playing well for a month, anything is truly possible.

A baseball sportswriter is comparing a recent Red Sox-Yankees trade to the infamous deal that sent Babe Ruth to New York.