Two-time World Sequence champion Alex Bregman is sitting and ready on the free agent market.
The Boston Pink Sox appear high quality with that.
Bregman is able to transfer on from the Houston Astros after spending all 9 of his MLB seasons with the franchise. He’s seeking to money in massive on free company, with stories suggesting the 30-year-old third baseman is in search of a contract within the vary of six years and $200 million.
The Pink Sox have been linked to Bregman earlier than the offseason even started — Alex Cora is an enormous advocate for Bregman — however which may not be a worth they’re keen to pay for a two-time All-Star who clearly is just not in his prime anymore.
The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal supplied an replace Monday concerning the place the Pink Sox stand with Bregman and it seems they’re content material with enjoying the ready sport.
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“I imagine what’s occurring is that the Pink Sox are merely saying, ‘We don’t suppose he’s going to Toronto, we don’t suppose Detroit goes to signal him, so we’re gonna take our probabilities that nobody else will (signal him), and we’re going to leverage this and negotiate as exhausting as potential,’” Rosenthal stated on “Foul Territory” as transcribed by 98.5 The Sports activities Hub’s Ty Anderson. “The issue is, they nonetheless won’t get Bregman and we’re not precisely positive whether or not or not the entrance workplace desires to decide to Bregman.”
Cora appears able to commit to Bregman, although. The 2 hung out collectively throughout Cora’s lone season as Houston’s bench coach.
Bregman’s reported willingness to maneuver from third base to second might make him a greater match for the Pink Sox with a franchise cornerstone in Rafael Devers already at third. And Cora understands what a distinction Bregman might make for the Pink Sox, even because the staff’s second baseman.
“Alex was a Gold Glover at third base and everyone knows that,” Cora instructed NESN’s Tom Caron this previous weekend at Fenway Fest. “In 2017, I had a dialog with him. He wanted to play third as a result of it was (Carlos) Correa and (Jose) Altuve. I at all times envisioned Alex as a Gold Glove second baseman. His dimension, the best way he strikes — it felt sort of like, ‘You can be a second baseman.’ However he has performed third base at a excessive degree, so we’ll see the place he finally ends up and we’ll see the place he finally ends up enjoying.”
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