The Red Sox Want You! Seriously, They May Be Interested

Quick question: Is there any baseball player the Red Sox are not interested in?

Every time I look at Twitter, I see some baseball media person writing "Red Sox have interest in (insert name of free agent or trade possibility here)."

Those names have included Torii Hunter, Justin Masterson, Shin-Soo Choo, Hiroki Kuroda, Justin Upton, Adam LaRoche and Mike Napoli. There are more.

Now do the Red Sox really have interest in all these players or is this a lot of media speculation?

I'm sure the Red Sox front office is doing its due diligence, so the answer to the above question most likely is "both." But how much does the real interest tip the scale? (Man, I ask a lot of questions.)

Boston has significant payroll flexibility after sending Adrian Gonzalez, Carl Crawford and Josh Beckett to the Dodgers back in August.

It'll be interesting over the course of the offseason to see who the Red Sox actually target.

Just for fun this morning, I played the Google auto-fill game. In the search bar, I typed "Red Sox interested in" to see which names popped up. You've played that game before, right?

Here are some interesting results:

Red Sox interested in Torii Hunter

Red Sox interested in Matt Garza

Red Sox interested in Hanley Ramirez

Red Sox interested in Jeter (That one made me nearly wet my pants.)

Red Sox interested in Jose Reyes

Red Sox interested in Cliff Lee (That one makes Brian Cashman nearly wet his pants.)

Red Sox interested in Matsui

Red Sox interested in Albert Pujols

Red Sox interested in Matt Holliday

Red Sox interested in Prince Fielder

Red Sox interested in R.A. Dickey. (Ok, I made up that one, but it would not surprise me to see the Cy Young candidate pitching in Fenway Park for the Sox next season.)