Marcelo Mayer traded for Ketel Marte: the rumors are false

With less than two months to go before the Major League Baseball trade deadline, it's only natural that the rumor mill is starting to run wild.
That was certainly the case yesterday (Monday), when rumors swirled that the Boston Red Sox had traded Marcelo Mayer to the Arizona Diamondbacks in a deal that would have brought Ketel Marte back to Boston.
And according to Alex Speier of the Boston Globe, the magnitude of this hypothetical trade prompted more than one executive in the Manfred era to con