The Braves, Rangers, and Red Sox will be adopting an interesting strategy at the MLB trade deadline this year.

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.

The Boston Red Sox once again found themselves in an early hole in Friday's showdown with the New York Yankees. Walker Buehler gave up five runs in the first in