Alex Bregman isn’t a perfect baseball fit on the Red Sox, but it’s closer than it is far. He’s set to play second base but should obviously switch to third once Rafael Devers and Alex Cora, Bregman’s sensei, get comfortable enough to sort that business out, hopefully sooner rather than later. Bregs is the sort of consistently good veteran presence the Sox have lacked since Xander Bogaerts left for more Orsillian pastures, and at least for this season, having him out there should be a gas.
But what then? In his introductory press conference, Bregman said that he was happy to be with the Sox because they’re pointing in the right direction, which implies that he plans to stick around for the full three years of the deal he signed.