Red Sox Links: Absolutely Nothing Noteworthy Is Happening Right Now

Photo by Matt Stone/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty ImagesWhen Melville wrote about the damp, dreary Novembers of the soul, he was writing about the fact that there’s so little baseball news right now that the Red Sox promoting a new bench coach generates the lead article in the region’s flagship newspaper. (Peter Abraham, Boston Globe)

Will the Red Sox follow the Braves approach of signing young players to long-term deals before they reach free agency? That’s one question pondered in Sunday’s Notes column, along with a bunch of other tidbits scraped up from the bottom of the content barrel. (Peter Abraham, Boston Globe)

Here’s some news . . . but not the good kind. Reportedly, at…