Acquired C Danny Jansen from Toronto in exchange for INFs Cutter Coffey and Eddinson Paulino and RHP Gilberto Batista. Agreed to terms with RHPs Brandon Neely, Blake Aita, Alex Bouchard, Joey Gartrell, Griffin Kilander, Cole Tolbert and Ben Hansen, OFs Zach Ehrhard, Will Turner and Yan Cruz, C Hudson White and 3B D'Angelo Ortiz on minor league contracts.

Contract Value Index (CVI)

The Red Sox's acquisition of Danny Jansen in a trade from Toronto earns a D Contract Value Index (CVI) — a grade that reflects significant structural weakness in the deal's value proposition. Jansen is a solid-starter caliber catcher whose defensive reputation and pitch-framing skills carry real value in a premium position, but the Red Sox surrendered meaningful prospect capital (middle infielders and a right-handed pitcher with developmental upside) to land a player entering his age-32 season without guarantee of extended production. With no contract extension detailed in this transaction, Boston is inheriting Jansen's existing arbitration-eligible status, which introduces pre-arb salary uncertainty — a short-term cost lever but one that provides no long-term financial predictability for the organization. The CVI grade reflects that the club paid a prospect haul for a veteran catcher in the middle of a regular season, a timing and positioning that typically favors the selling team. Given Jansen's recent injury history (he landed on the injured list just weeks before this trade), the Red Sox are absorbing injury risk on a premium-position player without the offsetting security of team control or a below-market extension. This deal reads as a win-now desperation move rather than a value-conscious transaction.