Jarren Duran

Duran was an unstoppable force in the Sox minor league system, until he reached Double A and was stopped cold in his tracks.

The Boston Red Sox have agreed to a one-year, $7.75 million contract with outfielder Jarren Duran to avoid arbitration for a second straight year.

Boston's Jarren Duran is among 29 players with two-to-three years of service time who are eligible for arbitration, while Atlanta's Angel Perdomo missed the cutoff.

The Red Sox and MLB have suspended outfielder Jarren Duran for two games after he uttered an anti-gay slur at a fan.

ARLINGTON, Texas — When the president of the Baseball Hall of Fame asks a player for an item, he’s ready with a follow-up question: Have you ever been to Cooperstown? Lots of them say yes, from their days in youth tournaments. And when they do, they get another question, as Jarren Duran did late Tuesday night. “I always ask guys how many homers they hit, because they always remember,” said Josh Rawitch, the Hall’s president since 2021. “And he said he hit 16. I said, ‘Sixteen?’ And he said, ‘Well, it was a small field.’” Rawitch collected Duran’s American League jersey...