This offseason has been anything but “full throttle” for the Boston Red Sox, but with a full month to go until Opening Day, there is still time for that to change. Cody Bellinger re-signed with the Chicago Cubs over the weekend and the dominos that are the other top Scott Boras clients — Matt Chapman, Jordan Montgomery, Blake Snell — could soon begin to fall.
The Red Sox have been connected to Montgomery throughout the offseason in part because his wife, McKenzie, is based in Boston for her medical residency. On Monday, ESPN reported the Red Sox and Montgomery met recently over Zoom, a meeting Red Sox manager Alex Cora later confirmed. Here’s what Cora said about the virtual meeting with Montgomery (via MassLive.com):
“(ESPN’s Buster Olney) is right,” Cora said Monday at JetBlue Park. “We zoomed with him. But we’ve been zooming with a lot of people throughout the offseason. I’m not going to get into specifics but yeah, it’s part of the process. It was a while ago, too. I was in South Beach for that one. I was in Miami.”
Cora being in Miami means the Zoom meeting with Montgomery took place before spring training started last week, so while that qualifies as recent, it wasn’t within the last day or two….
