A few days after officially announcing their first batch of non-roster invites to spring training, the Red Sox added another Friday.

As members of the Red Sox organization spoke throughout the course of Saturday’s Fenway Fest, two dominating, dueling sentiments emerged: First, that the team is hungry for the chance to prove they are better and stronger than last October’s first-round exit. Second, that the team is not quite complete, and perhaps missing a very important piece.

Both are righthanded hitters will the ability to pull the ball in the air, which plays well at Fenway. Bregman is more adept at putting the ball in play, with a career strikeout rate of 13.4 percent, considerably better than Bichette’s 19.4 percent figure which remains below league average.

“Boston signed Sikkema, a 27-year-old left-handed pitcher, to a minor league deal. New York selected him 38th overall in 2019 out of Missouri. The Yankees traded him and two other minor league pitchers to the Royals for Andrew Benintendi on July 27, 2022,” he wrote.

The Red Sox have swung big trades and extended their top young stars, but until they land a big free agent the club will have a hard time shaking its skinflint reputation.

That reality, Casas said Saturday at Fenway Fest, didn’t serve as any type of wake-up call or a shock. He expressed as much in a conversation with chief baseball officer Craig Breslow shortly after the Contreras deal was finalized.

The Red Sox agreed to a minor league contract with reliever Seth Martinez, as first reported by Andrew Parker of Sox Prospects. He’ll get a non-roster invitation to MLB camp.

The Boston Red Sox are not in a favorable position when it comes to designated hitter Masataka Yoshida. Boston owes Yoshida $18.67 million in each of the next t