The Red Sox have some roster maintenance due Friday.
Boston not only needs to add eligible prospects to their active roster to protect them from the 2025 Rule 5 Draft on Tuesday, but also needs to make decisions on whether it intends to non-tender arbitration-eligible players by Friday.
Tanner Houck, who is one of those players, isn’t expected to be going anywhere, according to MassLive’s Chris Cotillo.
Houck, 29, is expected to miss most if not all of the season after undergoing Tommy John surgery in August, which had many wondering if he’d be cut loose given the fact that he’ll become an unrestricted free agent ahead of 2028 — with his injury recovery and labor tensions making it possible that he won’t pitch again before hitting the open market.
Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow appears willing to risk that — admittedly, very low — possibility, and could get creative in extending that contract in a deal that makes sense for both sides — something he might not be willing to do with some others.
Nathaniel Lowe and Josh Winckowski likely won’t be tendered contracts, though the former could return at a much lower figure than he’s currently slated to make ($13.5 million).
Kutter Crawford, Brennan Bernardino, Romy González, Triston Casas, Connor Wong, Cooper Criswell and Jarren Duran, however, will sign contracts with the club — with the latter two already putting pen to paper.
Vaughn Grissom, David Hamilton, Nate Eaton and Nick Sogard are candidates to be booted from the roster when free agent deals are eventually agreed to, but for now, look to be safe.
It’s about to get serious, folks.
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