Late Tuesday afternoon, with Major League Baseball free agency underway and Red Sox fans hoping for a splashy signing or two, Will Flemming took to the social-media platform X and raised their hopes.

Wrote Flemming, the Red Sox’ radio voice , from his eponymous account: “I believe the next 72 hours are going to make a lot of Red Sox fans smile. Wa[y], way too much chatter and info from people I respect.”

His tweet, at 4:22 p.m., was innocuous enough. But because of his role and connections within the team’s brain trust, it stirred antsy Red Sox fans into believing that something big was imminent.

Free agent slugger Pete Alonso was a seemingly turnkey fit with the power-needy club, but to sign the ex-Met, it would almost certainly require offering the kind of long-term, big-money cont

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