Sources: Red Sox add to staff with Matz trade

The Boston Red Sox, connected the hunt for pitching assistance up of Thursday's MLB commercialized deadline, agreed to a woody with the St. Louis Cardinals for seasoned left-hander Steven Matz, sources told ESPN's Jeff Passan connected Wednesday night.

Boston is sending insignificant league archetypal baseman Blaze Jordan to St. Louis successful return, sources said.

The woody is pending aesculapian review.

Matz, 34, has acquisition starting and relieving, though the bulk of his enactment has been retired of the bullpen successful 2025. Of his 32 appearances, 30 person travel retired of the bullpen, and overall, helium has a 3.44 ERA crossed 55 innings, striking retired 47 portion holding left-handers to a .179 batting average.

Matz spent his archetypal six large league seasons with the New York Mets, wherever helium chiefly was a starter, past spent a twelvemonth with the Toronto Blue Jays earlier signing arsenic a escaped cause with the Cardinals successful 2021. He'll beryllium a escaped cause aft this season.

Matz's champion play came successful 2021, erstwhile his 14 wins for Toronto were 2nd astir successful the American League.

Jordan was a third-round prime of the Red Sox successful 2020, taken by then-Boston main shot serviceman Chaim Bloom. Bloom present works for the Cardinals and volition instrumentality implicit arsenic their president of shot operations during this coming offseason, replacing longtime beforehand bureau enforcement John Mozeliak.

Jordan, 22, is simply a power-hitting archetypal baseman who started the play astatine Double A and was promoted to Triple A successful aboriginal June. Across some levels successful 2025, helium has 12 location runs and 61 RBI portion batting .304.