Neither of hose guys would have come into that situation. They needed to shore up MiLB. Y'all talk like ballplayers are robots who won't analyze the situation because of the great tradition and culture of the Red Sox.
There's no way anyone with even a sliver of a chance of making an MLB roster signs here with what was, at the time, a SS logjam. Now getting some fidder that could play D is certainly something they failed at