With ownership appearing to be even more reluctant to spend than anyone expected, are now seeing why so many candidates turned down the job the Red Sox eventually handed to Craig Breslow? Alex Speier caught up with some of those candidates, including New England native Sam Fuld. (Alex Speier, Boston Globe)
So maybe Jordan Montgomery and Blake Snell aren’t walking through that door. That’s okay, we’ve got . . . Jakob Junis and Ryne Stanek? Reports are that the Sox have been in touch with both free agent pitchers. (Chris Cotillo, MassLive)
I’m not a fancy TV executive like Tom Werner, but I’m not sure Junis and Stanek are going to draw a lot of eyeballs to NESN, which has seen ratings plummet in recent years.