Witherspoon fell to the Red Sox after being ranked as the 10th player in the draft by MLB.com and seventh by Baseball America. The hard-throwing righty was 10-4 with a 2.65 ERA at Oklahoma last year with 124 strikeouts in 95 innings.

The Athletic's Ken Rosenthal offered a potential trade within the division between the Baltimore Orioles and the Boston Red Sox.

The Red Sox are three games out of first place in the AL East and hold the second wild-card spot. They also don’t have a closer waiting in the wings.