He’s Tyler O’Neill and comes from the St. Louis Cardinals, who, thanks to a logjam in the outfield, were so eager to get rid of him that John Mozeliak was a week or so away from stuffing him in a gfit bag for a white elephant party.
The Red Sox acquired him in a deal for two middling minor leaguers: Nick Robertson, a reliever who came over in the Kiké Hernandez trade and whose departure is making our own Jacob Roy sad, and Victor Santos, a 23-year-old pitcher who had an ERA of nearly 5 last year at AA Portland