The Boston Red Sox need a frontline starting pitcher this offseason and the Winter Meetings seems like a great time to find one.
Max Fried and Corbin Burnes both remain available as free agents while Chicago White Sox lefty Garrett Crochet is the leading prize of the trade market. There’s several ways to go but Boston needs to be bold to upgrade its rotation.
The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal added some updated clarity on what the Red Sox have planned in their pursuit of pitching. Rosenthal reported Boston is still interested in Crochet but faces aggressive competition from teams such as the New York Yankees. That shift comes after multiple teams missed out on the move of the offseason with the New York Mets signing Juan Soto.
“The Red Sox, in dire need of a left-handed starter, appear an ideal fit for Crochet,” Rosenthal wrote Monday. “But while Boston’s farm system is bursting with the kind of young position players the White Sox covet, it seems more focused on other pursuits, league sources said.”
There’s no reason the Red Sox can’t vault themselves to the front of the line for Crochet, but that once-likely trade now seems like less of a given and more of an alternative path for Boston to find its next ace this winter.
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