Pete Alonso, Alex Bregman or Kyle Schwarber are expected to be in Boston next year, and we might be close to finding out if that’s gonna happen.
The MLB Winter Meetings are underway as the industry arrived in Orlando on Sunday evening. There should be a lot of baseball news in the next 72 to 96 hours, and Alex Cora‘s team is expected to be one of the teams with the most interesting moves during this off-season.
«I think for fans there is, like, 3 big moves to be made,» said Red Sox beat writer Chris Cotillo to El Emergente. «Both of them will fit pretty well. Schwarber was solid in 2021. Pete Alonso, a guy who right-handed swing in Fenway will really fit. I am gonna guess they are gonna sign one of those 3 guys. I am not sure which one is gonna be a good addition either way. There are pros and cons to all of them.”
The Red Sox already made a couple of big moves in the past week as they added pitchers Sonny Gray and Johan Oviedo to the team.
Gray was traded by the St. Louis Cardinals, along with 20 million dollars, for Richard Fitts and Brandon Clarke. Oviedo was part of a five-player deal that included Red Sox former prospect Jhostynxon García.
“There are still big moves to be made,» Cotillo added. “There are holes to fill.”
But the Red Sox are already sitting on a 225 million dollars payroll and they expected to spend past the first CBT threshold of $244M.
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«I don’t think they have the money to do both at 30 million,» said Cotillo about the Red Sox adding two players from the Bregman, Schwarber and Alonso pool. «They are at 225. That gets them to 285 and you still have relievers to add. Even if you trade Duran for something, that’s only 7 or 8 million. Not 20. The guys that they pay the most are Crochet, Story and Gray and those guys are not going anywhere.”
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