The Boston Red Sox may not have solved their first base crisis on Thursday, but they made an effort toward doing so. Boston traded cash to the Los Angeles Angels to acquire Ryan Noda. Noda, 29, previously played for the Oakland Athletics.

Rafael Devers not wanting to move to first base prompted John Henry, Sam Kennedy and chief baseball officer Craig Breslow to fly to Kansas City earlier this month

On Friday, in the Boston Red Sox's first game of a doubleheader against the Baltimore Orioles, starting third baseman Alex Bregman was forced to exit in the fifth inning with what the team called right quad tightness.