{"id":475478,"date":"2025-12-27T18:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T18:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/475478\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T18:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T18:41:12","slug":"red-sox-reportedly-focused-on-4-primary-hitting-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/475478\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox Reportedly Focused On 4 &#8216;Primary&#8217; Hitting Targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Red Sox aren\u2019t done looking for offense this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Boston will keep pursuing another infielder after acquiring first baseman Willson Contreras, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2025\/12\/27\/sports\/sunday-baseball-notes-red-sox-craig-breslow-trades\/?event=event12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alex Speier of the Boston Globe<\/a>. Speier identified four \u201cprimary targets\u201d on the diamond.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Sox are pursuing free agents Alex Bregman and Bo Bichette while exploring another possible trade for Ketel Marte or Isaac Paredes.<\/p>\n<p>A Bregman reunion <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2025\/12\/red-sox-alex-bregman-update-willson-contreras-trade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remains feasible<\/a>, but the third baseman will likely require a longer-term investment than the three-year deal \u2014 with an opt-out he exercised \u2014 this time around. The three-time All-Star quickly established himself as a locker room leader while batting .273\/.360\/.462 with Boston last season.<\/p>\n<p>Bichette represents another top infielder on the open market. He shook off a down 2024 to bat .311\/.357\/.483 with 18 home runs and 94 RBIs for the Toronto Blue Jays, returning from a knee injury to notch a .923 OPS in the World Series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The shortstop may not seem like the <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2025\/12\/red-sox-should-sign-rival-infielder-despite-positional-fit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">smoothest fit<\/a> for Boston, but MLB.com\u2019s Mark Feinsand reported that Bichette has told teams he\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/bo-bichette-switch-to-second-base-and-alex-bregman-rumors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">willing to move<\/a> to second base.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Marte gives Boston another high-end target at the keystone position. USA Today\u2019s Bob Nightengale reported that the Red Sox were <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2025\/12\/red-sox-expected-to-halt-trade-talks-for-all-star-after-reported-willson-contreras-deal\/https:\/\/nesn.com\/2025\/12\/red-sox-expected-to-halt-trade-talks-for-all-star-after-reported-willson-contreras-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">backing away<\/a> from the Arizona Diamondbacks star after acquiring Contreras, but perhaps they\u2019re still eyeing the two-time Silver Slugger.<\/p>\n<p>Paredes earned his second All-Star nod and batted .254\/.352\/.458 with 20 home runs in 102 games last season. The 26-year-old offers a potential third-base pivot from Bregman if the Houston Astros are willing to trade him for the third time in as many years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Red Sox aren\u2019t done looking for offense this offseason. Boston will keep pursuing another infielder after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":415691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2730,40934,20168,14502,1266,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-475478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-alex-bregman","9":"tag-bo-bichette","10":"tag-isaac-paredes","11":"tag-ketel-marte","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115793001783983789","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475478","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=475478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475478\/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=475478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}