The Red Sox are adding an arm to their bullpen and are making a deal with their biggest rival to do it.
Relief pitcher Adam Ottavino is getting traded from the Yankees to the Red Sox, according to multiple reports. In addition to receiving Ottavino, the Red Sox will be getting Yankees pitching prospect Frank German and will be taking most of Ottavino’s $9 million salary for 2021, according to the New York Post’s Joel Sherman.
Ottavino, who signed a three-year, $27 million deal with the Yankees prior to the 2019 season, struggled in 2020.