Unlike last winter, when the Red Sox struck early and often to upgrade the roster, president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski is moving at a deliberate pace so far this Hot Stove season.
But that could change by next week's Winter Meetings, when Dombrowski and his crew will try to find a bat to replace retired slugger David Ortiz and a primary setup man to fill the void left by the likely departures of free agents Koji Uehara and Brad Ziegler.
MLB.com and MLB Network will have wall-to-wall coverage of the 2016 Winter Meetings from the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center outside Washington, D.