Red Sox Insider Gives Boston Edge In Signing Teoscar Hernández

The Boston Red Sox made one significant move to improve their starting rotation by acquiring Garrett Crochet from the Chicago White Sox.

Craig Breslow has made clear that pitching remains a priority for Boston. However, he also noted the Red Sox are looking to “balance out the lineup” as well, which would mean signing a right-handed bat.

Power-hitter Teoscar Hernández would fit perfectly in Boston, especially since he has a career slash line of .282/.344/.606 and 14 home runs and 44 RBIs across 44 games he’s played at Fenway Park.

The Athletic’s Jen McCaffrey thinks the Red Sox have a slight edge over the other five teams — New York Yankees, Toronto Blue Jays, Philadelphia Phillies, Kansas City Royals and Los Angeles Dodgers — to sign the slugger.

“There was a lot of interest there last year, but it didn’t happen,” McCaffrey told Ed Hand on the “Pod By The River” podcast on Thursday. “… He’s got a good relationship with a lot of Red Sox people, and he loves Fenway. I don’t want to say 50-50 because that’s probably, like, too boring of an answer, I don’t know. I’ll give it a little bit of an edge and say, like, 60-40.”

While McCaffrey is giving the Red Sox the edge, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said he thinks LA is “close” to re-signing Hernández when he appeared on “The Dodgers Bleed Los Podcast” over the weekend.