The Red Sox and Yoshinobu Yamamoto: After the MLB Winter Meetings, and the record-setting signing of Shohei Ohtani with the Dodgers, the race is now on for another of the offseason’s major available talents.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto, 25, is coming off a run of staggeringly successful seasons in Japan, where he’s won the Eiji Sawamura Award (the league’s equivalent to the Cy Young Award) three consecutive seasons, and is the subject of strong interest from a plethora of MLB suitors.
The Red Sox are among a list of teams attempting to sign Yamamoto, who totaled 17 wins with a microscopic 1.