BOSTON -- With an eye toward the stretch run of 2025 and the full ’26 season, the Red Sox on Friday agreed to terms on a two-year, $18.25 million contract with free agent lefty starter Patrick Sandoval, a source told MLB.com. The club has not confirmed the deal, which was

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BOSTON -- Roughly 15 years ago, the snow was falling from the winter sky, and Aroldis Chapman remembers throwing “a few pitches” in the bullpen at Fenway Park. He had just defected from Cuba and the Red Sox were one of the teams interested in signing the fireballing lefty.

Every season brings unexpected breakouts. We don’t mean rookies such as Paul Skenes or Colton Cowser -- can’t-miss prospects who, when they made it to the Majors, did not, in fact, miss. We’re talking about players who were either flying under the radar before reaching the big leagues or who

We don’t only deal in tools around here. Performance (i.e. what players do with those tools) matters, too. Stats form much of baseball's vocabulary. It’s part of how we tell the stories of the game. Look no further than the 2024 Major League season, when Shohei Ohtani recorded the first

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BOSTON -- The common thread for nearly all athletes is that the first trade in a career is typically a gut punch. You’ve been traded from the first professional organization that believed in you. You have to find a new home and learn the ins and outs of a new

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DALLAS – Eight years ago, the Red Sox struck a blockbuster Winter Meetings trade with the White Sox for an ace lefty pitcher (Chris Sale) that led to the club’s next World Series championship. On Wednesday, the last day of this year’s Meetings, Boston agreed to a deal with Chicago

Ever since Roki Sasaki's agent, Joel Wolfe, met with the media at the Winter Meetings, there’s been speculation about which team might be the best fit to land the prized right-hander, who was recently posted by his Japanese team, the Chiba Lotte Marines. As one executive put it when asked

What a makeover Garrett Crochet has undergone over the last year. At this time last offseason, Crochet was an injury-plagued reliever coming off Tommy John surgery and shoulder issues, with question marks about whether he'd ever again look like the dominant rookie who was so good that he debuted for

DALLAS – Arms were on the menu during Wednesday afternoon’s Rule 5 Draft at the Winter Meetings. A total of 15 players were taken in the Major League phase of this year’s Rule 5 and 11 of them were pitchers. It started when the White Sox took right-hander Shane Smith

The Red Sox acquired catcher Carlos Narvaez from the New York Yankees on Wednesday in exchange for Minor League right-handed pitcher Elmer Rodriguez-Cruz -- Boston's No. 13-ranked prospect -- and international bonus pool space. To make room on the 40-man roster, Boston designated infielder/outfielder Enmanuel Valdez for assignment.

The 2025 Draft may still be seven months away but it's also in the news. MLB Pipeline released its initial Draft Top 100 late last week and MLB staged the Draft Lottery on Tuesday evening at the Winter Meetings.

BOSTON -- Bolstering the bullpen with more velocity has been a stated priority for Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow this winter, and he made a significant move toward that end on Tuesday night by signing veteran lefty Aroldis Chapman to a one-year contract. It's worth $10.75 million, a

DALLAS – In the 2009 and ‘10 MLB Drafts, the Washington Nationals had the No. 1 pick and turned those selections into a pair of franchise-changing players, Stephen Strasburg and Bryce Harper. At Tuesday’s Draft Lottery during the 2024 Winter Meetings, Washington earned another shot at the very top of

DALLAS -- The big fish (Juan Soto) will swim in Flushing instead of Fenway, but that did nothing to dampen the spirits of Red Sox manager Alex Cora and chief baseball officer Craig Breslow on Monday, the day after the news broke that shook the baseball world. The Red Sox

There is nothing else in baseball quite like the Rule 5 Draft, traditionally the final number of the annual Winter Meetings. Every year, Rule 5 sounds the closing bell on the Winter Meetings by providing big league opportunities for a few players who may not have gotten them so immediately

DALLAS -- The Red Sox were hit with a double whammy at the Winter Meetings on Tuesday, as not only did a free agent they pursued heavily in lefty Max Fried slip away, but he wound up with the rival Yankees. A source told MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand that the deal

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DALLAS -- Willie Mays’ legacy was celebrated heavily in 2024, and in 2025, Major League Baseball will continue to honor his life by focusing on the very field where he started his baseball journey. Since 2012, MLB has held a charity auction at the Winter Meetings that raises funds for

Major League Baseball’s Draft Lottery will take place at the Winter Meetings in Dallas on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. ET. It’s time to get to know who the 16 teams eligible for the lottery are hoping to get a chance to select. MLB Pipeline’s new 2025 Top 100 Draft Prospects