BALTIMORE – Perhaps the baseball world is still in shock that Pete Alonso moved on from the New York Mets – Major League Baseball’s deepest-pocketed team in its biggest market – to a club that’s never paid a player even $25 million a year, in a town known for its pluck and perennial position as an underdog.

Could the Boston Red Sox have another move up their sleeve to improve the starting rotation? After acquiring Sonny Gray and Johan Oviedo, this conversation star