San Diego Padres first baseman Eric Hosmer, who earlier rejected a trade to the Washington Nationals as part of the Juan Soto deal, is now heading to the Boston Red Sox, sources confirmed to ESPN on Tuesday.
As part of the deal, San Diego will be paying down a significant portion of the approximately $44 million remaining on Hosmer's contract to the Red Sox, sources told ESPN's Jeff Passan.
Sources told ESPN earlier Tuesday that Hosmer was to be part of the Padres' package to acquire Soto and Josh Bell from the Nationals, but Hosmer, as part of his contract, refused to remove Washington from his no-trade list.