The Boston Red Sox took their fair share of criticism over their relatively inert trade deadline performance, coming away with nothing more than a lefty middle-reliever in 11-year veteran Steven Matz , and a No. 5 starter in former Los Angeles Dodgers often-injured righty Dustin May .

When the Red Sox came out of the deadline winning five games in a row before finally dropping a decision to the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday, it went a long way toward blunting those attacks.

Nonetheless, the Red Sox had several serious roster holes they failed to fill on July 31. But they finally filled one — at least they hope they did — on Friday when they took a step to address their backup catcher problem .

Actually, with rookie starter Carlos Narvaez suffering what appeared to be a strain

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