Please stop
Happy Tuesday.
Ken Rosenthal and his Close Personal Friend Scott Boras won’t let this die.
“What I believe is happening here is that the Red Sox are simply saying ‘we don’t think he’s going to Toronto. We don’t think Detroit is going to sign him. We’re gonna take our chances that no-one else will, and we are going to leverage this…’”
– @Ken_Rosenthal on Alex Bregman pic.twitter.com/zSm5GaN6X6
— Boston Sports Gordo (@BOSSportsGordo) January 13, 2025
The Red Sox entered this season with one big goal: improve starting pitching.
Big name after big name signed and the Sox were either not involved or outbid by presumably a lot given their opinion of 30+ starters and long-term deals.
They instead traded for Garrett Crochet and his quite low arbitration salary:
The Red Sox reached agreements with Garrett Crochet ($3.8 million) and Tanner Houck ($3.95 million) on 2025 salaries ahead of the arbitration filing deadline. Still waiting to hear on Duran and Crawford. Chris Cotillo was first to report Crochet/Houck figures.
— Alex Speier (@alexspeier.bsky.social) 2025-01-09T18:22:15.049Z
They want to pay their top-end starting pitcher for as many years in his 20s as possible.
Bregman famously can’t pitch. If he plays third base, Devers has to move to first or DH. Gerat, but Casas can really only move to DH or off the roster. And Masataka Yoshida is already at DH and even moving back to left field doesn’t really free up playing time.
So Bregman to second base? Where they have some depth of young players any of whom could claim the job by the end of 2025?
So dumb a signing it’s brilliant?
I don’t know…it seems like a big restructuring of the team this late in the offseason, right?
Talk about what you want and be good to one another.