The Boston Red Sox made their first significant move of the offseason Tuesday when they signed 36-year-old reliever Aroldis Chapman to a reported one-year, $10.75 million deal.

Chapman, a seven-time All-Star and one-time American League Reliever of the Year has become an immediately divisive signing with Red Sox fans on social media.

Strictly baseball-speaking, his best playing years are behind him. He had an ERA of 3.79 last year with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Off the field, he’s one of the more unpopular players in the game. He was suspended for 30 games in 2016 for violating MLB’s domestic violence policies.

Adam Jones and Rich Keefe reacted to the signing Tuesday on WEEI.

“Neither you or I like the Aroldis Chapman signing,” Jones said.

Rich Keefe echoed some of the thoughts of Red Sox fans.

“He’s 100 years old, bad dude,” Keefe said.

Despite the facts of this particular signing, Jones wondered if the Red Sox should be given credit for doing something fans were begging for: committing a decent amount of money to signing a free agent.

“I personally think you can say they didn’t really spend, this is a one-year, $11 million signing. But, are we being hypocrites by saying, ‘Sign, sign, sign,’ ‘Spend, spend, spend,’ then they sign somebody and spend, and we go, ‘Too much money?’” Jones said.

Keefe says that this signing still doesn’t convince him that the Red Sox plan to spend this offseason.

“A commitment to the team, and a long-term commitment, is one of these mega-deals, which they haven’t signed in a long time. Re-signing Devers, sure. But like a 12, 13-year deal to Soto, or six-plus years, let’s say, to like Corbin Burnes or somebody like that, that is a big-time commitment,” Keefe said.

Despite the amount of money spent, a one-year deal for a reliever does not indicate a larger commitment to spending.

“They spent more money for Chris Sale to win the Cy Young somewhere else last year than they did on Chapman,” Keefe said.

While Red Sox president Sam Kennedy recently told the Boston Globe that the team might spend over the luxury tax threshold, or CBT, this offseason, should fans still be concerned that nearly $11 million has already been spent on a non-marquee player?

“Is this an indication [that] they’re not going to spend big on Soto or Corbin Burnes? They’re going to spread it out. And if you only have 70 million to spend because they refuse to go into the luxury tax, now I need to criticize how you spend it,” Jones said.

If the Red Sox are still willing to spend money this offseason, and Chapman’s signing is the first of many moves to come, why make such a controversial player your first offseason addition?

“I don’t like the timing,” Keefe said.

“No Red Sox fan has ever liked Aroldis Chapman,” he continued. “Some will convince themselves they do now because he’s on the team, and that’s what happens, whatever. But he’s a bad dude.”

On the other hand, if the reports about Boston’s interest in major free agents are accurate, the Chapman signing could become a footnote.

“Let’s say, you know, the pipe dreams all come true, and they are major players, and they make trades, they sign either Soto or Burnes or whatever. And then, also, the fifth name is Chapman. You’re like, ‘Well, that’s kind of odd, but whatever, hey, we still got Soto.’ And, like, you’re still fired up about it,” Keefe said.

“If this guy is mowing down hitters in the eighth and ninth inning, people will move on. Whatever, he’s good now and, you know, second chances and all that other stuff. But for him to be like the first guy is kind of obnoxious,” he continued.

In another scenario envisioned by Jones, however, Chapman could be the first of several minor, similarly priced signings for ancillary pieces. At that point, a player suspended for domestic violence would become the face of the Red Sox offseason.

“He’s kind of the face of again [if] they spend 70 million and they spend it on five or six different guys, and they’re all 10 million players, and Chapman was first, he’ll kind of be the face of it,” Jones said.