While everyone is daydreaming about adding, I feel like this went pretty under the radar for something as notable as Speier talking payroll: "...the Sox seem unlikely to add significant payroll until after the new CBA is negotiated, if then."
bostonglobe.com/2026/10/14/s…
Saying the patriots were going to go for it instanced of kicking and winning is unbelievably poor broadcasting.
Teruaki Sato is likely going to be the most sought-after free agent bat this winter. The most reasonable scouting report on him is here:
justbaseball.com/internation…
There are going to be all the NPB-to-MLB stats translations and whatnot, but the general stylistic comps seem to be:
A few slots below Jeffers is fellow free agent Seiya Suzuki, with a nearly identical offensive skill set.
Good second-tier bat matches: Taylor Ward, Trent Grisham, Jake Bauers. Then: Alec Bohm
Randy Arozarena, Brandon Lowe, Jazz Chisholm, Luis Arraez don't match the profile.
The Red Sox invested so much young talent into acquiring Mead and Rutschman, two hitters with some very similar under-the-hood offensive metrics. Grouping those metrics, which clearly the Sox targeted, the #1 closest MLB match to that exact profile is free agent Ryan Jeffers.
The contact allowed by Rasmussen leading up to that HR and Cash brought him back out at 90 pitches with only 7 swing and misses all night: 105 105 105 95 102 104 74 105 (HR)
So fucked up
Garrett Whitlock dealt with leg pain throughout the final month of the season.
When he underwent imaging after the Red Sox were eliminated from the Wild Card round, he found out he had been pitching on a fractured tibia:
bostonherald.com/2026/10/09/…
