Are the Red Sox over a barrel for Bregman?
Posted: 27 Jun 2025 17:02 pm
Scott Boras is licking his lips thinking about the situation Boston has put themselves in. He has already gone Public to give soundbites about how much Bregman likes it there.
https://www.masslive.com/redsox/2025/06 ... eport.html
Some Boras clients in recent years have been left holding the bag or needing to put their tail between their legs and see if one of the handful of reckless owners will bail them out. But in this case I think this is set up perfectly for Boras to knock it out of the park, and he knows it. He's going to absolutely take the Red Sox into the fence.
Look at the Red Sox. They've done all the work possible (up to having Davis Ortiz offer some front office propaganda) to paint Devers as the bad guy. And from what I've seen they have a good portion of fans eating the goody two shoes (bleep) right up. I would want my kids looking up to Devers, and all this type of stuff. Reality is they came in as preseason AL favorites for some and now they are in a tailspin with a suddenly very young and raw roster. Roman Anthony was being held down at first because it was a contending team and there wasn't room. Now he's up and batting 3rd or 4th on a rebuilding roster.
Devers declined the move to 1st base yes. But the reality is before that the Red Sox front office is guilty of not communicating and undermining their star player. You can't tell me they gave him 300M just two years ago and now suddenly he has some attitude or personality problem they somehow didn't know about.
What it boils down to. For the Red Sox, the Betts trade seems like their equivalent of when we lost Taveras. Although there's self-inflicted. It has led to a cascade of bad reactive decisions. If they had locked down their true generational HOF player Betts, they wouldn't have had to sweat letting Bogaerts and Devers both walk. And probably would have still been able to field great teams. For his age 25-30 seasons Betts posted 36.6 WAR, which only 4 players posted higher during that age range since 2000. So that tells you the difference between a player that is once in a generation for a team vs. once in a generation for the whole league.
https://www.masslive.com/redsox/2025/06 ... eport.html
Some Boras clients in recent years have been left holding the bag or needing to put their tail between their legs and see if one of the handful of reckless owners will bail them out. But in this case I think this is set up perfectly for Boras to knock it out of the park, and he knows it. He's going to absolutely take the Red Sox into the fence.
Look at the Red Sox. They've done all the work possible (up to having Davis Ortiz offer some front office propaganda) to paint Devers as the bad guy. And from what I've seen they have a good portion of fans eating the goody two shoes (bleep) right up. I would want my kids looking up to Devers, and all this type of stuff. Reality is they came in as preseason AL favorites for some and now they are in a tailspin with a suddenly very young and raw roster. Roman Anthony was being held down at first because it was a contending team and there wasn't room. Now he's up and batting 3rd or 4th on a rebuilding roster.
Devers declined the move to 1st base yes. But the reality is before that the Red Sox front office is guilty of not communicating and undermining their star player. You can't tell me they gave him 300M just two years ago and now suddenly he has some attitude or personality problem they somehow didn't know about.
What it boils down to. For the Red Sox, the Betts trade seems like their equivalent of when we lost Taveras. Although there's self-inflicted. It has led to a cascade of bad reactive decisions. If they had locked down their true generational HOF player Betts, they wouldn't have had to sweat letting Bogaerts and Devers both walk. And probably would have still been able to field great teams. For his age 25-30 seasons Betts posted 36.6 WAR, which only 4 players posted higher during that age range since 2000. So that tells you the difference between a player that is once in a generation for a team vs. once in a generation for the whole league.