Dodgers, Red Sox 3-team blockbuster trade projection involves star outfielder, pitcher and big-name prospects

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It's not too often that a pair of big-market clubs get involved in one MLB trade.

But that's what MLB.com's Anthony Castrovince has suggested in a new trade idea that he has which features the Los Angeles Dodgers and Boston Red Sox.

It's not just a two-team trade, either. The Minnesota Twins join the trade pitch, too.

The suggestion has the Dodgers landing talented outfielder Jarren Duran from the Red Sox.

Then it has the Red Sox getting Joe Ryan, the right-handed pitcher from the Twins who they nearly got before the trade deadline.

Then three prospects get sent from the Dodgers to the Twins (Zyhir Hope, Jackson Ferris, Chase Harlan) as well as Red Sox pitching prospect Marcus Phillips.

It's not quite the three-team Mookie Betts trade, but it's a big set of moves.

Castrovince acknowledges that he had already come up with this idea before the Red Sox got Sonny Gray from the Cardinals, so maybe their pitching need is less now.

"With Roman Anthony, Ceddanne Rafaela and Wilyer Abreu looking like an elite outfield, Boston possibly has the luxury of moving Duran, who is due to make $8 million in 2026 and is under control through 2028," Castrovince writes. "Given that control, maybe Duran would appeal to the Twins, but, again, we’re operating under the assumption that they’d be going with a full-scale youth movement here. So instead, we send Duran to the Dodgers, who might stop short of paying top dollar for Kyle Tucker or Cody Bellinger but could surely stand to shore up their outfield with someone of the 29-year-old Duran’s power-speed combo caliber. The Twins get another bounty of prospects here for what would instantly be one of the strongest systems in the sport."

A deal like this one could often come down to how a team feels about a prospect.

Hope has immense upside, and if the Twins liked him enough, maybe they really could start to facilitate this as a three-team deal.

But with so many moving parts, it's not the most likely deal in the world, that's for sure.

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