Despite his fit with the Boston Red Sox, his embrace of the city and the changes the team made to accommodate him at third base, Alex Bregman will not return in 2025. This catastrophe is, unfortunately but expectedly, of the Red Sox's own making.
Bregman on January 10 signed a five-year, $175 million deal with the Chicago Cubs. Boston reportedly came up $10 million short in its offer to him — a ridiculous number considering he was lauded as a leader and proven winner by the front office on countless occasions. But the money is reportedly just one of the differences that led to the third baseman's departure.