The 2025 MLB Winter Meetings are open for business in Orlando, Fla. and the Boston Red Sox, like most everyone else, are waiting for the first free agency domino to fall.

“When does the Kyle Schwarber dam break? Several teams’ fortunes — from Philadelphia to Cincinnati to Pittsburgh to Boston to Baltimore to the New York Mets — depend on where Schwarber goes,” ESPN’s Jeff Passan reports. “The belief among teams is that it will take five years to secure the 32-year-old, and once that happens — perhaps sometime during the meetings — teams will start pivoting, and the action will pick up demonstrably.”

“The bidding for the likes of (Pete) Alonso and Kyle Schwarber has yet to even get underway, but it’s easy to anticipate those deals spiraling ever upward with the interest from

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