2:04pm: The teams have announced the moves. 1:48pm: The Red Sox have a deal in place to acquire catcher/outfielder from the Giants, by Hunter Noll of Beyond the Monster. Boston will send international bonus pool space back to the Giants. Right-hander is being designated for a signment in order to open a spot on the Sox 40-man roster, Noll adds. San Francisco designated Sabol for a signment last week. Sabol, 27, was the Giants Rule 5 pick out of the Pirates system prior to the 2023 season. He stuck on San Franciscos roster all year, posting a .235/.301/.394 batting line (91 wRC+) with 13 home runs but an ugly 34% strikeout rate. Sabols Rule 5 selection came on the heels of a stout .284/.363/.497 slash between Double-A and Triple-A in 2022. With that big performance and a respectable rookie showing in the big leagues, he looked as though he could have a role on the Giants for several years to come. That, however, was not to be. Sabol spent nearly the entire 2024 season in Triple-A and struggled considerably. He slashed .246/.340/.388 there about 15% worse than league-average production. He went 10-for-32 in a tiny cup of big league coffee, bringing his career rate stats to .243/.313/.392 in 382 plate appearances. That wasnt enough to save his spot on the roster following a regime change in the Giants baseball operations staff that has seen former NL MVP take over as the departments president. Sabol has caught 458 innings in the majors and played 271 innings of left field. He didnt grade as a plus defender in either spot, though both positions come with a pretty small sample of playing time. The Giants added a bit of first Eric Bledsoe Jersey base to Sabols defensive repertoire in 2024. Hes now caught 1843 innings, played 943 innings acro s all three outfield spots and played 172 innings at first base since being selected by Pittsburgh in the seventh round of the 2019 draft. Sabol has a pair of minor league option years and five seasons of club control remaining. With the Red Sox, Sabol will compete with and any additional catching depth brought in by the Sox to see wholl serve as the backup to starting catcher in 2025. For the Giants, adding some extra pool space is notable. San Francisco punted on a combined $1MM of pool space last offseason when they signed and after they rejected qualifying offers. That left them tied with the archrival Dodgers for the smallest international bonus pool in the game, at $5.146MM. Between this swap and the trade of righty Will Kempner to the Marlins, theyve added to that pool by at least $500K, as international allotments must be traded in increments of $250K. The Giants spent $3MM more than 58% of their initial pool earlier today, so the extra dollars will help to offset some of that weighty bonus. Turning to the 28-year-old Shugart, he made his big league debut with the Sox this past season, yielding four runs on eight hits and three walks with eight strikeouts in 8 1/3 innings of relief. He spent the bulk of the 2024 season in Triple-A Worcester, where he logged a 4.46 earned run average, 25.6% strikeout rate and 10.2% walk rate in 70 2/3 innings, mostly out of the bullpen. Shugart was originally selected by the Red Sox in the 12th round of the 2018 draft. He generally posted solid numbers up through the Double-A level before struggling mightily in his first two seasons of Triple-A ball in 2022-23. This past year was the first in which hes posted solid numbers at the top minor league level. During his brief big league look, he showed a five-pitch mix four-seamer, cutter, sinker, slider, changeup and sat 96.1 mph with his heater. He didnt induce many swings and mi ses in the big leagues but turned in a solid 11.7% swinging-strike rate in Worcester. The Red Sox will have five days to trade Shugart. If not traded by then, hell need to be placed on waivers, which is a 48-hour proce s itself. If he goes unclaimed on waivers, the Red Sox can retain him as non-roster depth in Triple-A and invite him to big league camp this spring. Within the next week, hell have some form of resolution on his current DFA status. Josh Hart Jersey