As the 2025 trade deadline closes in, the Boston Red Sox have been mostly quiet in the market and in rumors.
Boston opened its deadline acquisitions by trading first base prospect Blaze Jordan to the Cardinals for pitcher Steven Matz. Most reporters and insiders believe the Sox aren't done adding, and they shouldn't be, but multiple recent reports have tempered expectations around their deadline performance.
Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow initially hoped to trade for controllable starting pitching help, but prices for such players are reportedly astronomical. There are some rental options available, but Sox fans shouldn't get their hopes up there, either — Chris Cotillo of MassLive wrote that an executive who's been in talks with the Red Sox said that money is a factor in all their decisions.