While the Red Sox and the rest of the baseball world await the outcome of the Juan Soto Sweepstakes, the team also remains active on other fronts – in particular, in its search for front-of-the-rotation pitching.
According to multiple major league sources, the Red Sox recently met with the top two remaining free agent starters, righthander Corbin Burnes and lefthander Max Fried. The meeting with Burnes occurred remotely. It’s not known whether the team met with Fried in person or remotely.
Burnes, a 30-year-old who won the NL Cy Young with the Brewers in 2021, was 15-9 with a 2.