A home divided can complicate issues, and that appears to be the case for the Purple Sox and their pursuit of free agent Alex Bregman.
The Purple Sox are among the many groups believed to be robust bidders for Bregman, however that pursuit is getting slightly sophisticated as a result of some contained in the group aren’t as bullish on Bregman as others, in response to MassLive.
The report stated Boston supervisor Alex Cora and group president Sam Kennedy are excessive on the concept of bringing in Bregman.
Nonetheless, chief baseball officer Craig Breslow and different members of the baseball operations employees are a bit cautious of the Gold Glove winner.
The precise motive for Breslow’s hesitancy is a little bit of a thriller, in response to the report, however it might have one thing to do with the decline in his OPS over the previous two seasons, which dropped from .891 in 2022 to .804 in 2023 after which to .768 this previous season.
Cora was on the teaching employees in Houston throughout Bregman’s first full yr within the majors and noticed firsthand what the infielder can do.
“He’s a complete player. He’s a player who’s been on winning teams his whole career — good defender, offensively he’s really good. He’s a guy a lot of people are talking about and I do believe he can impact a big league team, a championship-caliber team. He’s that type of player,” Cora informed reporters on the winter conferences in Dallas on Monday.
The expectation is that Bregman will land a contract someplace round $200 million for at the very least seven years.
The opposite groups anticipated to be within the hunt for Bregman embody the Yankees and Tigers, together with the Astros, the place he has performed his complete profession.
He declined a six-year, $156 million to stay in Houston final month.
