It's easy to deduce that Alex Bregman's free agency market isn't as fat as expected, and that things this offseason haven't gone according to his and Scott Boras' liking. First of all, if Bregman had received enticing offers in the last six weeks — most notably from the Boston Red Sox — he would've put pen to paper by now.
But there are more signs than just the passage of time (with no deal) pointing to Bregman's less-than-ideal leverage. Up until a super-random development that saw the Arizona Diamondbacks reportedly jump in on Bregman this week, only the Detroit Tigers and Chicago Cubs were being mentioned with any consistency as Boston's competition for Bregman in recent weeks.