It seems one star actually needs Alex Bregman on a brand new group.
Latest Crimson Sox signing Walker Buehler advised reporters on a video name on Friday that he has pitched the free agent third baseman on the thought of becoming a member of him in Boston.
“I have certainly made a pitch all over the place for him to come to Boston,” Buehler stated. “He and I have been buddies for a long time. We played on Team USA together a little bit in college.”
Buehler continued by mentioning that the 2 have bonded over the horse racing business, revealing that they even personal a horse collectively, a 3-year-old colt named March of Time.
“I got involved in this horse and there was more of the horse that could have been purchased, so, he was the one guy I called and he opted in,” Buehler stated, “The horse won in Santa Anita in its first time with us.”
The Crimson Sox and Buehler agreed to a one-year deal price $21.05 million final week, which additionally contains $2.5 million in efficiency incentives.
Buehler’s signing is a part of a Crimson Sox pitching rotation makeover, with the membership buying and selling for former White Sox ace Garrett Crochet on Dec. 11.
Nonetheless, Boston remains to be in quest of an influence bat, dropping out on Juan Soto to the Mets in December and seeing Tyler O’Neill go away the Crimson Sox for the rival Orioles.
Bregman, who hit .260 with 26 house runs final yr for the Astros, could possibly be a priceless right-handed bat in a lefty-heavy Crimson Sox lineup.
In accordance with The Publish’s Jon Heyman, the Crimson Sox touchdown Bregman could be an “outside possibility.”
Throughout a Bleacher Report livestream this week, Heyman famous that the Tigers and Blue Jays are seemingly the highest two contenders to land Bregman, with each groups in search of a 3rd baseman.
He reported in November that the Crimson Sox would seemingly have to maneuver Rafael Devers to first base in the event that they signed Bregman.
Bregman was initially drafted by the Crimson Sox within the twenty ninth spherical of the 2012 draft, however he opted to play at LSU as a substitute earlier than going to the Astros at No. 2 total in 2015.
