BOSTON — The Boston Red Sox added 36-year-old right-hander Sonny Gray to their rotation on Tuesday, filling one of their biggest needs by acquiring the three-time All-Star from the St. Louis Cardinals with more than two months left in the offseason.

The Cardinals will eat $20 million of Gray's salary and receive righty Richard Fitts and a prospect in the deal. Gray gives Boston a dependable option who could take some of the pressure off the rest of the rotation behind ace Garrett Crochet.

“We’ve been pretty transparent about our desire to add to the rotation, and our desire to add a bat,” Red Sox Chief Baseball Officer Craig Breslow told reporters on a conference call. “I don’t think anybody wants to feel like they’re in a position of having to check off multiple items on the shopping li

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