Red Sox Notes: Hirokazu Sawamura, Chris Hermann, Joel Payamps

Photo by Koji Watanabe/Getty ImagesThe Red Sox made some news on Wednesday night by sending former top prospect and 2018 champion Andrew Benintendi to the Royals in a three-team deal. We’ve been talking about that for the most part since that happened, but there are a few bits of news pieces that got lost in the shuffle over the last 24 hours or so on which we’ve fallen behind. And so we’ll cover a few moves here to catch us back up.

Hirokazu Sawamura signing appears to be imminent

For almost a week now it has seemed likely that the Red Sox were going to sign Hirokazu Sawamura, a right-handed reliever from Japan. Chris Cotillo first mentioned the possibility on Sunday.

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