{"id":415690,"date":"2025-11-30T19:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T19:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/415690\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T19:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T19:30:14","slug":"red-sox-fans-wont-like-latest-alex-bregman-plan-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/415690\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox Fans Won&#8217;t Like Latest Alex Bregman &#8216;Plan B&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Red Sox fans rightfully assume that the club is going to do everything in its power to <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2025\/11\/red-sox-predicted-to-sign-superstar-infielder-to-155-million-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">re-sign Alex Bregman<\/a> this offseason \u2026 but what if that doesn\u2019t happen?<\/p>\n<p>Free agency can be difficult to predict, even in instances like this one where the Red Sox want Bregman back, and Boston is clearly the best fit for him.<\/p>\n<p>A Bregman return feels very likely, but that didn\u2019t stop Bleacher Report\u2019s MLB writer Kerry Miller from penning a \u2018Plan B\u2019 for Boston in the event that Bregman signs elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>The thing about Miller\u2019s backup plan is that it involves a pair of unproven players at the MLB level, which won\u2019t make it an idea that makes many (or any) Red Sox fans smile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlan B: Sign One of the Sluggers Coming Over from Japan,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25307559-plan-b-mlb-teams-lose-biggest-names-free-agency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miller wrote on Sunday<\/a>. \u201cWhether it\u2019s Munetaka Murakami or the less-heralded but also homer-happy Kazuma Okamoto, the Red Sox could adjust to life after Bregman via international waters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem with that plan is that neither Japanese slugger is anything close to a sure thing on the defensive side of the hot corner equation,\u201d Miller continued. \u201cBut considering they also have a need at first base, the Plan B to their Plan B could be moving Murakami\/Okamoto across the diamond and hoping for the best with Marcelo Mayer at third.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Miller then added a more palatable option:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they\u2019re fine with that option, though, maybe the actual replacement for Bregman\u2019s right-handed bat in the lineup is signing Pete Alonso to play first and just embracing the possibility that third base needs to be addressed at the trade deadline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>How are we feeling, Red Sox fans?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston Red Sox fans rightfully assume that the club is going to do everything in its power to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":415691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2730,1266,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-415690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-alex-bregman","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115640311676246063","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}