When the MLB lockout officially ends, the Red Sox will revisit a question fans and pundits alike have been asking for a while: should the team make a serious push to sign free-agent shortstop Carlos Correa?
On the surface, the answer is, “Why not?” Correa posted the third-best WAR among MLB shortstops (5.8) last season — Xander Bogaerts ranked just two spots behind him at 5.2 — and was fourth at his position with a 134 wRC+ mark (again, just ahead of Bogaerts’s 130 wRC+).
He would also make the Red Sox better defensively at the shortstop position than Bogaerts typically does.