In this article, Sports Illustrated runs with a quote from an SB nation who, despite Sean McAdam saying otherwise, “feels like” Wilyer Abreu can’t headline the trade for Crochet.

Lightning round: this guy wrote two different articles for Sports Illustrated. The first article is about a Bleacher Report prediction, the second is a quote from Mark Feinsand saying the Red Sox could want him back in the because they issued the QO.

Anyway, who’s saying he could go to the Angels? A random (all due respect) FanSided staff writer. Man, if I kept writing for FanSided, maybe Sports Illustrated would have written entire articles about my free agent predictions! This is a prediction pulled out of thin air.

Example #3: Poor sourcing.

I could have talked about how odd it is to write an article about how stupid a team is for giving Nick Pivetta $48M. They allude to his “peripheral stats” that say he has nasty stuff, but they don’t go into any detail about his potential value.

This is the entire article. I even managed to fit all three ads in the same screenshot. This is pathetic. This is a perfectly fine topic to write on; you can discuss the Red Sox chances or the potential fits. This is an entire article of two sentences meant to sell ad space.

Example #2: Non-news as news.

We know the Red Sox have been talking with most of the free agent starting pitchers. We know that because Jeff Passan, the source of this article, has said this, as well as other reporters. Want to know what the article adds onto Passan’s report?

Well, Spotrac projects Helsley to sign for $81M next offseason. So, not only is he not an $81M All Star, but it’s based off of a projection made by Spotrac which wouldn’t even affect the Red Sox if they traded for him this offseason. That was intentionally misleading.

Example #1: Misleading articles.

. Who is this mysterious Cardinals $81M All-Star? Nolan Arenado? Sonny Gray? No, it’s Ryan Helsley. But Helsley earned $3.8M last year.