The Red Sox made some news on Wednesday night by sending former top prospect and 2018 champion Andrew Benintendi to the Royals in a three-team deal. We’ve been talking about that for the most part since that happened, but there are a few bits of news pieces that got lost in the shuffle over the last 24 hours or so on which we’ve fallen behind. And so we’ll cover a few moves here to catch us back up.
Hirokazu Sawamura signing appears to be imminent
For almost a week now it has seemed likely that the Red Sox were going to sign Hirokazu Sawamura, a right-handed reliever from Japan.