{"id":5437,"date":"2024-11-28T08:12:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T08:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=5437"},"modified":"2024-11-28T08:12:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T08:12:23","slug":"red-sox-to-sign-180-million-starter-even-after-signing-juan-soto-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=5437","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox To Sign $180 Million Starter Even After Signing Juan Soto, Report Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Red-Sox-180-million-starter-sign.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" alt=\"Corbin Burnes pitches in 2024 All Star Game\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-content entry-content\">\n<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\" class=\"wp-caption\">\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corbin Burnes<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Boston Red Sox continue to appear serious in their pursuit of generational\u00a0free agent slugger Juan Soto. But even if Boston succeeds in landing the star who ranked fourth in the 2024\u00a0<em>MLB.com<\/em>\u00a0Hitter Power Rankings, they will not be done with their offseason shopping, according to a report from a top Boston insider.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Speier of\u00a0<em>The Boston Globe<\/em>\u00a0wrote on Wednesday that even if the Red Sox break from their penny-pinching practices of the previous six seasons and win the bidding war for Soto, Boston will remain on the hunt for a top-of-the-line starting pitcher, most likely in the free agent market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to sources, the Sox do not view the pursuit of Soto and a front-of-the-rotation starter as an either\/or proposition,\u201d Speier reported. \u201cThey\u2019d still be looking to add a top starter even if they land the top player on the market.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Red Sox May Look to Sign Corbin Burnes<\/h2>\n<p>With former San Francisco Giants lefty\u00a0Blake Snell now off the market\u00a0after agreeing to sign a five-year, $182 million contract with the reigning World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers, the Red Sox are left to pursue\u00a0Atlanta Braves left-hander Max Fried, or former Milwaukee Brewers and Baltimore Orioles workhorse Corbin Burnes, according to Speier\u2019s report.<\/p>\n<p>Snell\u2019s deal with the Dodgers marked the first nine-figure deal of the 2024-2025 offseason, an indication that the market which appears to have been waiting on Soto to settle on a destination, may be heating up.<\/p>\n<p>While the Red Sox are generally believed to be in pursuit of a left-handed starter, one prominent Red Sox news and fan account on X (formerly Twitter) has urged the club to prioritize Burnes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Red Sox should move fast and secure Corbin Burnes,\u201d wrote the\u00a070,000-follower account\u00a0<em>Boston Strong<\/em><em>,<\/em> \u201cHe\u2019s the best starter available. I understand that they want a lefty but he\u2019s the horse they need at the top of their rotation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Red Sox failed to settle on a fifth starter last season, while their top four of Tanner Houck, Kutter Crawford, Brayan Bello and Nick Pivetta were all right-handed.<\/p>\n<h2>Burnes is One of MLB\u2019s Most Durable Arms<\/h2>\n<p>The 30-year-old Burnes, however,\u00a0brings a high level of durability\u00a0to the Red Sox rotation, should he land in Boston. Over his last four campaigns, the righty has not pitched fewer than 167 innings in a season, and has recorded at least 190 in each of the last three years.<\/p>\n<p>Over that four-year span, Burnes has averaged six innings per start. In that same time period,\u00a0the average Major League starter\u00a0pitched only five innings per outing.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022 the Bakersfield, California, native started a National League high 33 games for the Brewers, while starting 32 the following season and 32 again in 2024 when he pitched for the Orioles on\u00a0a one-year, $15.6 million\u00a0contract.<\/p>\n<p>The sports business\u00a0site SpoTrac estimates Burnes value on the current free agent market at $180,814,848 over a six-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers\u2019 signing of Snell, however, has been widely\u00a0considered an overpay\u00a0and as a result, may inflate the going rate for Burnes, Fried and other starting pitchers still available on the free agent market.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corbin Burnes The Boston Red Sox continue to appear serious in their pursuit of generational\u00a0free agent slugger Juan Soto. 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