Jon Heyman of SI reported earlier that the Boston Red Sox have made an offer to free agent right-hander Roy Oswalt. Oswalt must have plenty of options out there, because Heyman says that he hasn’t accepted it yet.
“#Redsox made offer to oswalt but are unsure hed go since hes yet to accept. he rejected det. may prefer cinc, tex, stl,” he tweeted with terrible use of capitalization.
But, maybe they are hoping he doesn’t accept the offer. According to Jim Bowden of ESPN, they have also reached out and made an offer to former St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Edwin Jackson. And Bowden says they’d actually prefer Jackson over Oswalt.
“Red Sox have made offers for Edwin Jackson and are presently in discussions with him and prefer him over Roy Oswalt according to source,” Bowden tweets with much better use of punctuation and capitalization than Heyman.
Jackson is a nice pitcher, but he’s not on Oswalt’s level when healthy. Then again the “when healthy” part could be what the Red Sox aren’t thrilled with.