For all the transactions we’ve seen so far during baseball’s offseason, no player subgroup has been more consistently active than the starting pitching market, which has been steadily buzzing from the beginning of winter all the way up until the calendar flipped to 2025.

As the Roki Sasaki’s free agent process approaches its next phase, the chance of the Japanese phenom landing in Boston remains slim. Meeting with reporters on a Zoom webinar Monday night, Sasaki’s agent,