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Rosenthal: Red Sox ownership shares responsibility for team’s disappointing offseason

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I can’t defend Chaim Bloom. Not for his missing a trade deadline. Not for his uninspired work so far this offseason. But Red Sox ownership deserves as much, if not more, blame for the franchise’s current inertia. Bloom, the leader of the baseball team, shouldn’t be the only puncher. The Mets are spending big because …

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Right: The Red Sox bet big on Masataka Yoshida; Cubs sign Jameson Taillon and more

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The Red Sox certainly made the choice to give Masataka Yoshida, an outfielder who has spent his career to date in Japan’s NPB, their first big spend of the offseason, signing him to a $90 million deal on five years – money they could have spent on Willson Contreras, who would have filled a greater …

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Rosenthal: What I’m hearing about MLB free agency with Verlander, Rizzo and more

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What I hear: • The market for independent starting pitchers is quite active and the first demands of the three biggest names — Jacob deGrom, Justin Verlander and Carlos Rodón — are, unsurprisingly, quite high. Rangers general manager Chris Young, who has already traded for Jake Odorizzi and made a qualifying offer to Martín Pérez, …

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