Boston is stockpiling pitchers, yet Chaim Bloom still needs to acquire dependable starters.
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Tom Caron: To bounce back, the Red Sox must enter the arms race
Starting pitching, relief pitching, left-handed pitching. Whatever it takes. Boston needs help in 2021 and beyond.
Cora hopes Martinez, Rodríguez, Benintendi can bounce back
Red Sox manager Alex Cora is predicting better things from some of the Boston players who had an off year during the pandemic-shortened 2020 season
Tom Caron: Red Sox should look east for pitching help
Tomoyuki Sugano, a 31-year-old right-hander from Japan, could bolster a Boston rotation in need of arms.
Red Sox sign OF Hunter Renfroe to one-year deal
Renfroe played last season with Tampa Bay, hitting just .156 in 42 games but homering twice in the playoffs.
MLB notebook: Phillies hire Dombrowski as president of baseball operations
The former Red Sox president will take over a team that has missed the playoffs nine years in a row.
Tom Caron: MLB needs winter meetings to showcase the sport
This year the annual event is being held remotely because of the pandemic. Next year it needs to come back bigger and better than ever.
59 MLB players cut in coronavirus pandemic fallout
Players become free agents when their teams decline to offer them 2021 contracts by Wednesday night’s deadline.
Sports Digest: Red Sox keep Barnes for $4.5 million
Boston agrees to contracts with backup catcher Kevin Plawecki and three relievers, including closer Matt Barnes.
MLB notebook: Red Sox, Rodriguez agree to one-year, $8.3 million deal to avoid arbitration
Left-handed starter Eduardo Rodriguez, sixth in AL Cy Young voting in 2019, did not play in the shortened 2020 season after a brutal bout with COVID-19.