With Alex Speier of the Boston Globe reporting that nearly everyone on the Red Sox roster is available for trade conversations, it shows that Chaim Bloom will have to be creative in order to cut payroll this offseason. The Chief Baseball Officer will have to carefully navigate this payroll-palooza the Red Sox have gotten themselves into.
The Red Sox have to fill holes on the right side of the infield, add bullpen reinforcements, and clog up the back-end of the rotation. All the while, about $30 million has to be shaved in order to drop under the luxury tax threshold.