https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2026/06/red-sox-trade-rumors-sonny-gray-open-waiving-clause.html
Sonny Gray. I only bring it up since we like our Boston trades, and we are going to need another frontline starter for the playoffs. Bonus - an old Brewer mention.
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It bears emphasizing that the mutual option won’t be viewed by any acquiring teams as a possible extension of club control. It’s been 12 years since a mutual option was exercised in MLB by both parties (Brewers, Aramis Ramirez in 2014). Mutual options are more or less accounting measures, effectively functioning as small-scale deferrals by kicking a portion of a player’s guaranteed salary for one season onto the following year’s books in the form of an option buyout. Generally speaking, if a player performs well enough for the team to exercise its end of an option, that player has likely performed well enough to turn down his end of the option in search of a larger deal on the open market. Conversely, if the player is exercising his end of an option, it’s because he doesn’t he feel he can top that option value in free agency (whether due to injury or poor performance), thus leading the team to decline its end.