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Boston Red Sox Rumors: 4 relievers team should pursue for bullpen help

By Jason Haskins

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 02: Matt Barnes #32 of the Boston Red Sox pitches in the rain during the eighth inning against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium on June 02, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 02: Matt Barnes #32 of the Boston Red Sox pitches in the rain during the eighth inning against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium on June 02, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images) /
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Washington Nationals pitcher Sean Doolittle (Photo by Scott Taetsch/Getty Images)
Washington Nationals pitcher Sean Doolittle (Photo by Scott Taetsch/Getty Images) /

A Washington National

For a team that has loaded their rotation with lefties, Boston has not a one in their bullpen. The relievers are built to take on the New York Yankees and their row of righties, but a lefty in the bullpen might be nice.

Enter Sean Doolittle (3-1, 3.24 ERA) of the Washington Nationals. With the Nationals falling behind the Philadelphia Phillies and Atlanta Braves in the N.L. East, they may very well be sellers again this year. Washington may want to wait to see how June plays out, but the Boston Red Sox should jump in early and put an offer together.

Doolittle is due six million this season and can enter free agency in 2020. But he has been solid throughout his career and has 12 saves in 2019. Doolittle also has 30 strikeouts in 25 innings, though he has allowed three home runs (after allowing only three in all of 2018).

He also has experience in the American League, pitching with the Oakland A’s until the middle of 2017. If the Red Sox don’t  make a move for this reliever, however, there is another left-handed closer out there that Boston could at least check on the availability of.

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