
Yankees triumph over Red Sox in bidding for top free-agent lefty
DALLAS – For the second time in less than 48 hours, the Red Sox have been outbid by a New York team for a top free agent target.
At 4:47 p.m. CT on Tuesday, ESPN’s Jeff Passan announced that left-hander Max Fried is taking an eight-year, $218 million contract from the Yankees.
Instead of pitching alongside his old high school teammate, Lucas Giolito, Fried will now be on the other side of baseball’s storied rivalry.
Fried’s signing comes almost exactly 24 hours after Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow declared the club would be more “decisive” and “aggressive” in upgrading the roster this offseason. But it was the Yankees who landed Fried by offering him the largest guaranteed to a left-hander in MLB history. Notably, the deal just barely breaks the record set by none other than the Red Sox when they inked David Price to a seven-year, $217 million contract in December 2015.
The Red Sox were Fried finalists until very close to the end, just as they were Juan Soto finalists before he took the largest contract in sports history from the Mets on Sunday.
Per source, they’re pivoting once more, preparing an offer for top right-handed free agent Corbin Burnes, whom they met with previously.
This story will be updated.

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