BOSTON — Four days after their season ended with a shutout loss in a die-or-die game at Yankee Stadium, the Red Sox are still performing a post-mortem on their 2025 season and dissecting what went wrong. Soon, though, it will be time to answer one of the most pressing big-picture questions when it comes to the club this offseason.

As the Red Sox look to jump from fringe playoff contention to being a real World Series threat, they have money to spend, in large part due to the cash that came off the books when the club traded Rafael Devers to the Giants in a shocking blockbuster trade in June. Even for a big-market team like the Red Sox, the commitment to Devers — who was in the second year of a 10-year, $313.5 million deal that came with a CBT (collective bargaining tax) hit of $29 mill

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