Breaking: Red Sox import a Panda

Eric D. Schabell
Contributing Writer

Yesterday there was a sighting of Pablo Sandoval on a flight to Boston.

It was up in the air after the signing of Hanley Ramirez for 5 years at $90 million dollars if the Red Sox would make another splash at third base so soon.

Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports reports, "Sandoval’s agent, Gustavo Vasquez, told me same thing he told @alexspeier: No deal with #RedSox. However, @JonHeymanCBS reporting it’s done."

John Heyman of CBS Sports tweets it first:

Sandoval has agreement to go to the red sox for 5 years, close to 100M
— Jon Heyman (@JonHeymanCBS) November 24, 2014

That puts the Red Sox staring lineup for 2015 right now at something like:

CF Betts
2B Pedroia
DH Ortiz
LF Hanley
3B Sandoval
1B Napoli
RF (fight it out with Victorino, Nava, Bradley Jr., etc)
SS Bogaerts
C Vazquez

All that is now left is to pull in the pitching with Jon Lester and Andrew Miller, right?

Adding both Ramirez and Sandoval would push Boston's 2015 payroll for CBT purposes to $164 million. Room for pitching, flexibility to trade.
— Brian MacPherson (@brianmacp) November 24, 2014

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