The Red Sox reportedly made Alex Bregman a contract offer, but it wasn’t enough to keep the 2025 MLB All-Star in Boston. Boston offered Bregman a five-year, $165 million contract, according to multiple reports.

Just when you thought it was impossible for there to be more discourse over the months-long saga that ended with the Red Sox trading Rafael Devers to the Giants in June... here we go again. With Devers’ third base replacement,

Landing Alex Bregman is easily one of the biggest highlights of the Cubs’ offseason. The move clearly shifts the balance of power, but it didn’t come cheaply.

At the outset of the offseason, the Red Sox publicly acknowledged they needed additional power to not only compete in the division but to advance deeper in October. They acquired Willson Contreras, but his production merely matches what they got out of Bregman a year ago. Offensively speaking, the Sox are back to ground zero.