Red Sox pitchers and catchers have their first workout two weeks from today, so it's time to take a first crack at projecting the 26-man Opening Day roster.

Will one of the Red Sox’s top prospects crack the Opening Day roster? We examine that and more in this week’s roster projection.

The Red Sox DFA’d Brasier after 20 games and a 7.29 ERA in 2023 before he signed a minor league deal with the Dodgers later in the season. He returned to the majors that June and went on to pitch in 39 games for Los Angeles with a 0.70 ERA.

Free agent starter Nick Pivetta could return to the Boston Red Sox now that his market has all but disappeared. Both The Athletic’s Jen McCaffrey and MLB Network’s Jon Morosi have reported that Pivetta and his camp could be getting desperate as the multiple offers they expected this winter have failed to materialize.

With the Los Angeles Dodgers stacking their roster, particularly their pitching staff, they are a team to keep an eye on because they already had a lot of good pitchers.