The Boston Red Sox acquired a pair of starting pitchers in separate trades less than two weeks apart in Sonny Gray and Johan Oviedo.

ESPN MLB expert David Schoenfield praised the Red Sox’s Thursday deal to land Oviedo from the Pittsburgh Pirates, giving Boston a B- for the move and said the big right-hander has “obvious upside.”

Schoenfield, who gave the Red Sox a B+ for their November acquisition of Gray, also called the two newcomers “sort of the polar opposite” of each other.

“Oviedo is sort of the polar opposite of Gray, other than the fact that both are right-handers: Oviedo is 6-foot-6 and 275 pounds with a fastball that touches 98 mph while Gray is 5-10 and doesn’t throw hard; Gray has been reasonably healthy while Oviedo missed all of 2024 with Tommy John surgery; Gray pou

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