With the 2020 season officially over, at least for the Red Sox, it’s time to look to next year. Having spent the year clearing out contracts to become financially flexible, the Sox now have a chance to shop a free agent market that could reshape the team in 2021 and beyond.
The big names that I’ve heard fans clamoring for are J.T. Realmuto, George Springer and Marcell Ozuna, but with the possible exception of the last one, I don’t find those signings very likely. If we have learned anything about Chaim Bloom from his time in Tampa and Boston it’s that he likes to work the edges, not the middle of the field, so to speak.