Peavy on trade possibility: 'I hope you all aren’t around to see me cry like a baby'

Some low rumblings surfaced Tuesday afternoon, which have pitcher Jake Peavy potentially being on the move for the second time in a year. 

The Boston Red Sox starter, who was shipped to Beantown from the Chicago White Sox at last year's trade deadline, has largely underperformed in his tenure with the club. Despite working as a functional stop-gap for a patchy Sox rotation last season, en route to a World Series  title, no less, Peavy has been a mess in 2014, going 1-7 with a 4.64 ERA and 4.81, while serving up a whopping 17 home runs in 18 starts. 

Still, there appears to be a market for the 33-year-old, who, at the very least, can still gobble up meaningful innings. That's all the St. Louis Cardinals, who were said to be interested in Peavy, may need, with recent injuries gnawing away at their stout pitching staff. 

The Red Sox, meanwhile, would love to get any kind of return for a player who's contract expires at the end of the season and is unlikely to be renewed. Their season is quickly slipping away, and a loss to the White Sox Tuesday night dropped them to 39-51, leaving them last in the AL East and 10.5 games out of a potential playoff spot. 

For his part, Peavy is being a professional about the whole thing, and credits his past experiences being traded with his current perspective:

"This will be my third time my name has really been thrown out there with a legitimate chance to be traded, and I’ve been traded twice previous," he told Red Sox beat writer Ian Browne. "I do understand what this is like. I don’t have any anxiety if it were to happen. I’m going to handle things because I know the whole process. Like I said, it’s a difficult one." 

That said, even a seasoned trade-block veteran like Peavy isn't impervious to the aggravation of being uprooted in the middle of a season.

"My life is in Boston – everything I have," he says. "And to pick and move to a new city where you don’t know anybody, it’s challenging times for anybody." 

Peavy also told Tim Britton of the Providence Journal that he has spoken with his representation and with Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington, and his impression is that the rumors exist for a reason: "I don’t think people are making stuff up," he said.

“I hope you all aren’t around to see me cry like a baby," he went on. "Because if that day does come, it’s going to be tough for me to look some guys in the eye and know I’m not going to be on their team.”