The Red Sox have agreed to terms on a minor-league contract with free-agent right-hander Noah Davis, a team source confirmed to BloggingtheRedSox.com. The deal, which is pending a physical, comes with an invite to major-league spring training.
Davis, who turns 28 in April, first announced his joining the Red Sox organization on Friday night via an Instagram post. The California native had spent parts of the last three seasons (2022-2024) with the Rockies before being outrighted off the club’s 40-man roster in September, which allowed him to reach free agency two months later.
A former 11th-round draft selection of the Reds coming out of UC Santa Barbara in 2018, Davis was traded to the Rockies for veteran reliever Mychal Givens in July 2021. The righty was added to Colorado’s 40-man roster for Rule 5 protection that November and entered the 2022 season ranked by Baseball America as the organization’s No. 21 prospect. He then made his big-league debut that October.
Davis owns a 7.71 ERA and 5.65 FIP with 43 strikeouts to 23 walks in 18 outings (six starts) spanning 51 1/3 innings for his career at the major-league level (all with Colorado). That includes a 5.75 ERA (4.64 FIP) with 15 strikeouts to seven walks in nine relief outings (20 1/3 innings) for the Rockies in which opposing hitters batted .352 against him this past season. At the Triple-A level, he most recently pitched to a 5.77 ERA (4.72 FIP) with 72 strikeouts to 31 walks over 19 appearances (68 2/3 innings) for the Albuquerque Isotopes of the hitter-friendly Pacific Coast League in 2024.
Standing at 6-foot-2 and 195 pounds, Davis flashed seven different pitches this year, per Baseball Savant. A client of Driveline Baseball, which was founded by Red Sox special advisor/interim director of baseball sciences Kyle Boddy, Davis relied heavily upon his mid-90s sinker (thrown 46 percent of the time) while also mixing in a sweeper, cutter, screwball, changeup, curveball, and four-seam fastball.
Davis should get an opportunity to compete for a spot in Boston’s Opening Day bullpen alongside fellow non-roster invitees Austin Adams, Isaiah Campbell, Michael Fulmer, Bryan Mata, and Wyatt Mills once camp begins in February. If he does not make the team, he figures to provide the Red Sox with versatile pitching depth at Triple-A Worcester to open the 2025 season since he has experience as both a starter and reliever.
