2025 may be gone, but the holes in this Red Sox roster are not. With virtually the entire MLB offseason on hold over the last week for the holidays, we enter 2026 with both a Red Sox team that hasn’t participated in free agency yet this winter, and a free agent class that still has more than half of MLB Trade Rumors’ top ten guys entering the offseason still on the board. (Can we get a pitch timer for this part of the MLB calendar, please?)
This leaves us in a continuously awkward spot when trying to evaluate the club. The front office has made multiple trades (and probably mostly good ones if we’re being honest), but also still has an incomplete roster, money left to spend, and all against a backdrop of several shiny objects still sitting on the shelves.
In other words, there’s still plenty of offseason to go, and we here at Over the Monster will be at your service to cover it all. So Happy New Year to you and yours, and we’ll be back to our usual thing soon!
In the meantime, use this thread to ring in the New Year, talk about whatever you want, and as always, be good to one another.
