BOSTON -- Dave Dombrowski was taking questions from reporters in the home dugout at Fenway Park on Monday when his cellphone beeped to alert him of an incoming text message.
"That could be a trade [offer] right there," the Boston Red Sox president of baseball operations said. "I don't know. It's that time of year."
Indeed, baseball's nonwaiver trade deadline is now less than a week away, and after consecutive last-place seasons, the back-in-contention Red Sox are all-in again as buyers. Dombrowski recently made four deals in a seven-day span and said he received five fresh proposals before 5 p.