Nine Free Agents for the Red Sox
During the off-season and so far this entire season the two of the biggest Red Sox stories have been about signing Rafael Devers and Xander Bogaerts to contract extensions. I have been confused most of the time and even fell into the same boat of everyone else wanting Bogaerts and Devers to be extended.
I looked it up last week and it turns out that neither of them needs to sign either of them to a contract extension this year. Devers has one more year of arbitration and Bogaerts is signed through 2027. He can opt out after this year, so they just need to convince him to buy into this team.
While looking this up it got me interested in who will be a free agent after this year. When I did the research for this article, I was only looking at the guys on the current active roster that are healthy.
I had ten guys, but my list is now at nine because one of the men on the list was Travis Shaw. With him being DFA’d, I will now rank the nine free agents on the Red Sox and how important I think they are to return for the 2023 season and beyond.