Not a fan of acquiring Stanton. Between the cost in talent it will require the Sox to give up and his injury history .......no thanks.
If it's going to cost Benintendi and two or three of the top 5 or 6 prospects, I get this. But if it's just the prospects, there's literally nothing in the farm system right now that I'd be terribly upset about losing in a Stanton trade so long as it wasn't everything. One of Groome or Chavis plus two of Mata, Houck, Travis or Ockimey and one of Brennan, Shawaryn or Scherff would likely make this one of the two worst farm systems in baseball, but we're talking a drop of 3 or 4 spots in the system rankings at this point. So whatever.
I'd prefer to not have Groome and Scherff in the same deal as I'm really high on Scherff's upside and would like one of the only two high upside pitchers on the farm (IMO) to be retained, but other than that you're clearing out a system that's already super thin on talent anyway.
And with the passing of Daniel Flores, they really can't afford to give up picks and IFA money to sign any QO talent (unless they completely punt on rebuilding the system for a couple of years), so they are limited to a trade like this, signing JD Martinez for what looks like far too much money over too many years, or settling for Duda or Bruce.
I'd prefer taking a chance on Duda giving the team a .330 OPB and 30 HR and planning on/hoping for some positive regression and a little bit of a boost from Hyers' supposed buying into the launch angle revolution. But if the price is just prospects for Stanton and they aren't being outbid (unlikely, IMO), adding Stanton instead makes this a better team for the duration of the window.