{"id":420027,"date":"2026-01-19T21:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T21:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/420027\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T21:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T21:18:08","slug":"insider-adds-fuel-to-red-sox-isaac-paredes-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/420027\/","title":{"rendered":"Insider Adds Fuel To Red Sox-Isaac Paredes Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"68\">The big talking point around the Boston Red Sox right now is whether they will add another infielder this offseason. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6b\">A handful of names have been thrown around for the Red Sox as they have a surplus of pitching and outfield talent. But there is no end in sight as of writing. The most intriguing name out there is Houston Astros infielder Isaac Paredes. <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/15\/sports\/mets-yankees-inquire-about-freddy-peralta-as-trade-buzz-grows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jon Heyman of the New York Post<\/a> reported that the Red Sox and Houston have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/red-sox\/onsi\/boston-red-sox-news\/red-sox-isaac-paredes-update-drops-with-options-running-out-pat3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">spoken about a potential deal<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6e\">If you like our content,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=si.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">choose Sports Illustrated as a preferred source on Google<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6h\">On Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLBNetwork\/status\/2013293122713739712\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jon Morosi of MLB Network<\/a> shared four names of infield targets for Boston, including Paredes. <\/p>\n<p>The Red Sox need another bat quickly<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6r\">&#8220;In some ways, when you consider how the Red Sox&#8217;s lineup looks right now, if they were to trade for Paredes &#8212; and we&#8217;ll see if potentially (Jarren Duran) will be a part of that conversation too &#8212; that you might then see a combination, a bit of a platoon over at second base between Romy Gonz\u00e1lez and Marcelo Mayer.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6u\">&#8220;I do think for a lot of different reasons, Paredes fits Boston as well as anybody else right now. Those four names we talked about, (Brendan Donovan), (Nico Hoerner), (Matt Shaw), Paredes. I think that group of players, we can see one of those four make their way to Fenway in the coming days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6x\">Paredes is 26 years old and has hit 19 or more homers in each of the last four seasons. In 2025, he launched 20 homers in just 102 games. That would&#8217;ve been the third-most homers on the Red Sox if he were in the organization last season, just ahead of former Boston infielder Alex Bregman. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"70\">If the Red Sox could actually land Paredes, that&#8217;s the type of deal that would move the needle. If the Red Sox had Willson Contreras at first base, Mayer at second base, Trevor Story at shortstop, and Paredes at third base, it would mitigate the loss of Bregman. Especially with the rotation now featuring Ranger Su\u00e1rez as well. Losing Bregman hurt, but if the club could replace him with Su\u00e1rez and Paredes, that&#8217;s enough.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"73\">More MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/red-sox\/onsi\/boston-red-sox-news\/red-sox-infield-rumors-expand-to-include-phillies-all-star-pat3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Red Sox Infield Rumors Expand To Include Phillies All-Star<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The big talking point around the Boston Red Sox right now is whether they will add another infielder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-420027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}