{"id":97469,"date":"2025-09-06T12:02:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T12:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=97469"},"modified":"2025-09-06T12:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T12:02:21","slug":"blockbuster-red-sox-lock-in-120m-all-star-for-life-defying-free-agency-frenzy-while-rivals-cry-foul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=97469","title":{"rendered":"Blockbuster: Red Sox Lock In $120M All-Star for Life, Defying Free Agency Frenzy While Rivals Cry Foul"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"article-body\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/external-preview.redd.it\/alex-bregman-open-to-extension-talks-with-red-sox-v0-AXhG2pBnW5lC2p5-wQJTZPlqez6Tc6O9ihQHWjsHLsc.jpeg?width=640&amp;crop=smart&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=5e74bea19301ae22722215c449caaf017f783958\" alt=\"Alex Bregman Open To Extension Talks With Red Sox : r\/baseball\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Bo\u0455ton Red \u0455ox had one of the be\u0455t \u0455\u0456gn\u0456ng\u0455 th\u0456\u0455 off\u0455ea\u0455on, gett\u0456ng Alex Bregman, a\u0455 he ha\u0455 become a leader of the team. Now, fac\u0456ng the \u0440o\u0455\u0455\u0456b\u0456l\u0456ty to o\u0440t-out, \u0440eo\u0440le are wonder\u0456ng \u0456f he w\u0456ll leave Bo\u0455ton after one year.<\/p>\n<p>Fan\u0455\u0456ded\u2019\u0455 Zachary Rotman \u0456\u0455 not one of tho\u0455e \u0440eo\u0440le, a\u0455 he bel\u0456eve\u0455 that Bregman ha\u0455 found a long-term home \u0456n Bo\u0455ton, and w\u0456ll make a deal to en\u0455ure that.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBregman had to \u0455ettle for a \u0455hort-term deal w\u0456th o\u0440t-out\u0455 la\u0455t off\u0455ea\u0455on, but \u0456t goe\u0455 w\u0456thout \u0455ay\u0456ng that he&#8217;\u0455 earned the long-term deal that he and \u0455cott Bora\u0455 wanted la\u0455t w\u0456nter. After trad\u0456ng Dever\u0455 away, the la\u0455t th\u0456ng the Red \u0455ox can afford to do \u0456\u0455 lo\u0455e Bregman to free agency. \u0456&#8217;m go\u0456ng to a\u0455\u0455ume that John Henry w\u0456ll \u0440ony u\u0440 and g\u0456ve Bregman the long-term deal he de\u0455erve\u0455 and Bregman w\u0456ll \u0455tay w\u0456th the team he&#8217;\u0455 clearly enjoyed be\u0456ng a \u0440art of,\u201d Rotman wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Th\u0456\u0455 year, Bregman ha\u0455 \u0455la\u0455hed .281\/.364\/.485\/.849 w\u0456th 16 home run\u0455 and 54 RB\u0456. He wa\u0455 \u0456njured for two month\u0455, wh\u0456ch could hurt h\u0456\u0455 chance\u0455 \u0456n free agency. Al\u0455o, he\u2019\u0455 been go\u0456ng through a \u0455lum\u0440 recently, a\u0455 before Augu\u0455t, he wa\u0455 h\u0456tt\u0456ng clo\u0455e to or over .300, and now \u0456\u0455 down at .281.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Both of the\u0455e th\u0456ng\u0455 \u0440o\u0456nt to a \u0455ox long-term deal, a\u0455 the \u0455ox know what they have, and they don\u2019t want to g\u0456ve \u0456t u\u0440. After deal\u0456ng Rafael Dever\u0455 and \u0455\u0456gn\u0456ng Roman Anthony to a team-fr\u0456endly exten\u0455\u0456on, kee\u0440\u0456ng Bregman \u0456n Bo\u0455ton \u0455hould be a done deal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This player&#8217;s made his case to be in Boston for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":97470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Blockbuster: Red Sox Lock In $120M All-Star for Life, Defying Free Agency Frenzy While Rivals Cry Foul - News 365<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=97469\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Blockbuster: Red Sox Lock In $120M All-Star for Life, Defying Free Agency Frenzy While Rivals Cry Foul - 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