The Boston Red Sox have already been active this offseason, but still have needs to address. Their top priority is likely still Alex Bregman, but he is not the only position player the team could be targeting.

While stars like Pete Alonso and Kyle Schwarber could be targets for the Red Sox, there are some under-the-radar targets for the team on the open market as well. One of those players could be Ryan O’Hearn. However, would he actually move the needle for the Red Sox?

O’Hearn was traded from the Baltimore Orioles to the San Diego Padres last season. He was an All-Star for the first time in his career and had a career year. He hit a career-best 17 home runs and posted his highest OPS in a full season.

The veteran first baseman and outfielder could help the Red Sox while Triston Casas recovers from his season-ending injury. However, he should not be more than a backup plan for the Red Sox.

O’Hearn is projected to sign a two-year, $22 million deal. He is not going to cost much, and the Red Sox seem willing to spend to add to the lineup.

November 29, 2025

https://www.mlb.com/player/ryan-o-hearn-656811

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/ohearry01.shtml

20 comments

  1. “If you never overpay for anyone, you will never sign any top players.” Don’t believe me? Dylan Cease got 7yrs/$210 million with a 4.55 ERA.

    Someone will overpay for O’Hearn. It won’t be us. I doubt he’d want to sign here, anyways, after getting shafted on playing time after the trade.

    I think $$$ will he spent on mid-rotation starting pitching.

  4. I’m fine letting him go. Hot two months for Baltimore, then had a 100 OPS+ the rest of the way. Play Sheets in his spot and save $11m for pitching or a power bat.

  5. Because Peter’s money-grubbing brothers are selling the team. They are capitalizing on profits (simplified: attendance, etc) being high, while pushing expenditures (simplified: payroll) lower. This has been the direction the past 2 years.

  7. We really need Kroenke to come and save this team today before we have to blow it all up for money purposes

  10. I’m willing to let a guy who idolizes Ted Nugent so much he put him on his Players’ Weekend bat go. Let some other team get cat scratch fever and grab him.

  11. He’s not a bad player, but if Padres are looking for power… he’s never had a season with 20+ homers, only slugged .450+ once in 2023 besides his short rookie year, and his .803 ops in 2025 is a career high, outside of short rookie year. And for all the WAR nerds, he’s never had a 2.5+ WAR season. Not sure where Padres are going to find a guy who’s got more pop right NOW that’s affordable, but might be worth saving some money for the near future instead of locking in a 32-year-old guy who’s never hit 20+ homers. Padres were able to get 19 out of Sheets his first year.

  12. Because the Padres are a sad franchise about to sell the team and won’t spend any money

  13. Sorry to be so harsh to fellow Padres fans… but wake up… the Padres are broke and for sale. There’ll be no participation in the winter madness we’ve grown accustomed to. It is lame. But it’s our reality. Not a reason to end our Padres fandom, but we need to adjust and understand we’re in a winter discontent and instability.
    None the less LFGSD.

  14. Ohearn was fairly disappointing tbh. He did jack shit in the playoffs as well.

    Not to mention we need RHH power bat. Our lineup construction was way too lefty heavy and Sheets, Merrill, Crone all here. Petco suppresses lefty power unless you are hitting it to the porch. Even Soto had poor numbers at Petco.

  15. This ownership group is playing with fire. And by that I mean they are close to setting afire all the goodwill this franchise built over the last decade. Very very disappointed fan here and I don’t trust they are in it to win it.

  18. Because as far as we know right now, they have roughly $10 million to spend. The corner Preller and Seidler backed this team into is going to get sharper every year.

    I find it interesting how the same folks that jerk themselves off about how Preller made the team “interesting” again always seem to be the ones asking “why don’t we just sign [player wildly not in the budget]” The window’s closed, babe. Hope you enjoyed it.

  19. Ownership; Their legacy will be who they decide to sell to since they do not have the finances to compete. Honor Peter, or cash out and split it among the fam.

    New owner means a new FO. AJ bails, Greupner, hopefully will be gone. He seems to be the back stabbing kinda guy.

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