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Red Sox Reportedly Interested In Reunion With Outfielder Coming Off Strong Season

Boston needs one more addition to the lineup
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Red Sox Reportedly Interested In Reunion With Outfielder Coming Off Strong Season
Red Sox Reportedly Interested In Reunion With Outfielder Coming Off Strong Season

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Will the Boston Red Sox bring back a familiar face to fill one of their glaring needs with less than two weeks to go until pitchers and catchers report to spring training?

Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow has been on an offseason-long quest to find starting pitching and an impactful right-handed bat with positional versatility. 

The former will not come via reunion in all likelihood but the latter could be down to a pair of former Red Sox outfielders.

The Red Sox "like" free-agent outfielder Tommy Pham, the New York Post's Jon Heyman wrote so elegantly on Friday.

Pham hit .256 with 46 extra-base hits including 16 home runs, 68 RBIs and a .774 OPS in 129 games between the New York Mets and Arizona Diamondbacks last season.

He posted a 111 OPS+ in 2023 -- meaning his offensive production was 11% better than league average -- and was a key member of the World Series runner-up Diamondbacks down the stretch.

With the Red Sox, Pham hit .234 with 18 extra-base hits including six home runs, 24 RBIs and a .672 OPS in a short 53-game sample size to conclude the 2022 season.

At this juncture, the right-handed bat addition could come down to Pham or outfielder Adam Duvall -- who has been heavily linked back to Boston. MassLive's Chris Cotillo reported that Garrett Cooper could be in the mix as well.

Pham proved to be a middle-of-the-order bat for the Diamondbacks and could be effective during a second stint in Boston but is not the marquee addition fans were hoping for entering the offseason.

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Scott Neville
SCOTT NEVILLE

Scott Neville covers the Boston Red Sox for Sports Illustrated's new page "Inside The Red Sox." Before starting "Inside The Red Sox", Neville attended Merrimack College, where he earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Communication and Media with a minor in Marketing. Neville spent all four years with Merrimack's radio station WMCK, where he grew as a radio/podcast host and producer.  His propensity for being in front of a microphone eventually expanded to film, where he produced multiple short films alongside his then-roommate and current co-worker Stephen Mottram. On a journey that began as a way to receive easy credits via film classes, he received a call from "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" star Charlie Day. Day advised him to make a feature-length film, which he completed his senior year. While writing the film, Neville completed an internship for United Way as part of their NFL Partnership Program. Neville ran the blog for a team of interns and hosted an internet show called "United Way's NFL Partnership Series" where he interviewed NFL alumni. After college Neville wrote for SB Nation's "Over The Monster," a Red Sox sister site of the flagship brand. His work would eventually lead him to a job as a content producer with NESN, where he would cover all sports. After developing as a writer with the top regional network in the world, he was given the opportunity to join the Sports Illustrated Media Group in his current endeavor as the publisher of "Inside The Red Sox." The successful launch and quick rise of "Inside The Red Sox" led to Neville joining the Baseball Essential ownership group, a national baseball site under SIMG. Follow him on Twitter: @ScottNeville46 Email: nevilles@merrimack.edu

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