Pink Sox have expressed curiosity in Marlins star Otto Lopez

“Lopez is a contact hitter, which might make him a match for the kind of participant that Craig Breslow has focused up to now.”

Otto Lopez leads the majors in batting common to this point this season. Jess Rapfogel/Getty Photographs

On Monday, ESPN MLB author Buster Olney famous on X that the Pink Sox had been nonetheless available in the market for a shortstop with lower than per week to go till MLB’s commerce deadline on August 3.

The next day, Olney reported that the Pink Sox are kicking the tires on one of many high shortstops within the recreation in Miami Marlins All-Star Otto Lopez.

“The Boston Pink Sox are looking for a shortstop, and one identify that has come up in conversations is the Miami Marlins’ Otto Lopez, who was a part of the Nationwide League All-Star staff earlier this month,” Olney wrote on ESPN Tuesday. “‘He’d be an important participant for them,’ mentioned one rival government with data of Boston’s curiosity.

“Lopez is a contact hitter, which might make him a match for the kind of participant that Craig Breslow has focused up to now. The 27-year-old leads the majors with a .331 batting common, has 22 steals and is considered a constructive persona.”

The Pink Sox are nonetheless on the prowl for one more influence bat of their lineup, with that sentiment solely rising stronger after new commerce pickup Curtis Mead suffered a damaged wrist after only one recreation with Boston.

Boston’s beginning shortstop to open the 2026 marketing campaign in Trevor Story remains to be working his method again after present process sports activities hernia surgical procedure in Might. Even when he was wholesome, Story left so much to be desired with Boston this 12 months, sporting only a .244 on-base proportion.

The Pink Sox’ backup choices at shortstop have additionally left so much to be desired, with each Isiah Kiner-Falefa and Marcelo Mayer sidelined as a result of damage.

Mayer’s sturdiness and offensive ceiling have additionally stood as regarding query marks relating to the prospect’s general big-league profile. Boston additionally has one of many high prospects in baseball in shortstop Franklin Arias — though the Pink Sox could possibly be tempted to flip the blue-chip expertise for extra assured big-league manufacturing.

Based on each Sean McAdam and Chris Cotillo of MassLive, the Pink Sox are searching for a “long-term” choice at shortstop this deadline season, with Boston being linked to names like Washington’s CJ Abrams, Houston’s Jeremy Pena, and Anaheim’s Zach Neto.

“Contemplating the potential pending lockout — and a really poor place participant class in free company this winter — Boston could also be this deadline as a possibility to settle that place,” McAdam and Cotillo wrote of the shortstop place.

Lopez can be a large add for Boston, even when he initiatives extra as an elite contact hitter than a confirmed thumper within the coronary heart of the Pink Sox lineup.

The 27-year-old shortstop has been a pressure this season with the Marlins, batting .331 with 27 doubles, 9 residence runs, and 48 RBI with 22 steals throughout 103 video games to this point throughout the 2026 marketing campaign.

The suitable-handed Lopez might have much more to offer offensively if he performed most of his video games at Fenway Park, particularly in terms of peppering the Inexperienced Monster for extra-base hits.

Just like Mead, Lopez is within the midst of a real breakout marketing campaign this season in Miami, which might provide some threat for whichever staff is prepared to surrender the numerous belongings wanted to pry him from the Marlins.

However, Lopez nonetheless boasts a really excessive ground given his excessive contract price, sturdy defensive play, pace, and the truth that he’s underneath staff management by 2030.