The exact nature of the Red Sox’ offer this past week to free agent Pete Alonso isn’t known. What is known, of course, is that, in the end, it didn’t match what the Baltimore Orioles gave — five years, $155 million — the first baseman .

Speaking in general terms and not specifically about the failed Alonso talks, one prominent agent noted of the Red Sox : “They don’t believe in long-term deals.”

Indeed, it’s hard to think otherwise in recent years.

The Red Sox, under Chaim Bloom, signed infielder Trevor Story to a six-year, $140 million deal in March of 2022, just after the last lockout ended.

Since then? The Red Sox have given out just one deal longer than three years — a five-year contract for Japanese outfielder Masataka Yoshiuda for $90 million. And even that pact didn’t reach

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