Report: Red Sox to go hard after David Price, Zack Greinke

By Steve DelVecchio

The Boston Red Sox are reportedly planning to pursue one or both of the top two pitchers on the free agent market this winter.

Appearing on MLB Network Monday afternoon, Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports said that new Red Sox president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski is willing to be the highest bidder for free agent pitcher David Price and/or Zack Greinke. Rosenthal didn’t rule out the possibility of Boston going after both aces, though he later noted that he was simply sharing his opinion.

And Rosenthal isn’t the only plugged-in MLB reporter who has been hearing that the Red Sox plan to spend big. Tom Verducci of Sports Illustrated said on MLB Network that he believes Price will end up in Boston.

“I believe David Price is going to Boston,” Verducci said, per CSNNE.com. “Dave Dombrowski is all in.”

Both Price and Greinke are expected to command somewhere in the range of $30 million per season over five-plus years, so it is unlikely that the Red Sox will sign both. That said, they certainly have the financial resources to sign both and are coming off back-to-back last-place finishes in the AL East.

Price, who reportedly wants to go to a specific NL team, has some awkward history with Boston. Let’s just say he hasn’t exactly gotten along with David Ortiz in the past, though money has a way of changing stuff like that.

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