Happy Monday.
Thanksgiving arrives this week.
Many, many, many moons ago this was a time when the Red Sox would make a big splash. Granted it’s really only twice. But each trade in 2003 and 2005 around Turkey Day bought a top-end pitcher to Boston.
Bob Nightingale is perhaps the baseball writer equivalent to a larger grain of salt. However he’s hearing the same things as everyone else.
This is why they met with Soto, told everyone how well it went, and informed agents that they not only want to sign one of the marquee free-agent pitchers in Corbin Burnes, Max Fried and Blake Snell, but actually want to sign two.