BOSTON — No matter how much the baseball landscape around them changes, the Red Sox and the Yankees still keep an eye on each other.
Those glances may not be quite as riveted as they once were, like the time the Yankees reacted to losing out on Daisuke Matsuzaka by signing Kei Igawa — a $46 million mistake. But it was hard not to notice this off-season that when the Yankees and the Red Sox went about retooling, they placed their priorities in different places. While the Red Sox stockpiled threatening bats, the Yankees’ faith was in pitching.