{"id":328344,"date":"2025-12-06T03:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T03:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/328344\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T03:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T03:14:10","slug":"could-bo-bichette-sign-red-sox-contract-latest-landing-spot-rumors-amid-mlb-fa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/328344\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Bo Bichette Sign Red Sox Contract? Latest Landing Spot Rumors amid MLB FA"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Boston Red Sox are considering Bo Bichette as a potential “alternative” to re-signing star third baseman Alex Bregman, The Athletic’s Will Sammon and Ken Rosenthal<\/a> reported Friday.<\/p>\n

Sammon and Rosenthal wrote the Red Sox see retaining Bregman as a “priority,” but that “some with the club view Bo Bichette… as an intriguing alternative.”<\/p>\n

Bichette hit free agency this winter following seven seasons and two All-Star campaigns with the Toronto Blue Jays.<\/p>\n

Although he spent the majority<\/a> of his time in Toronto at shortstop, Bichette debuted<\/a> at second base during the 2025 World Series.<\/p>\n

MLB Network’s Jon Morosi<\/a> reported in November that Bichette had “received interest from multiple teams who view him as a second baseman or third baseman.”<\/p>\n

That could make him a potential fit even in Boston, where Craig Breslow told MassLive’s Christopher Smith<\/a> in November he expects Trevor Story to start at shortstop next season.<\/p>\n

The Red Sox could instead target second base, which was a position of weakness for the club in 2025, or third should Bregman walk in free agency.<\/p>\n

Bregman signed a three-year, $120 million<\/a>\u00a0contract with the Red Sox last February, but opted out<\/a> in November after driving up his free agency price with an AL All-Star campaign in 2025.<\/p>\n

He has reportedly drawn interest from teams across MLB including the Chicago Cubs and Detroit Tigers, per recent reports from The Athletic’s Patrick Mooney and Sahadev Sharma<\/a> and the New York Post’s Jon Heyman<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Should either club outbid the Red Sox after losing out on Bregman’s services last offseason, Boston could be looking for a new starter at third base.<\/p>\n

Moving to another infield position could potentially lead to defensive improvements from Bichette, who was ranked<\/a> by Baseball Savant as the weakest defender among MLB shortstops last season.<\/p>\n

Breslow told Tim Healey<\/a> of the Boston Globe in November that the Red Sox were looking for “a bat in the middle of the lineup that forces another team to game plan against.”<\/p>\n

Bichette could potentially both take on this role and help fill in for Bregman should the Red Sox miss out on bringing him back in 2026.<\/p>\n

Whether the Red Sox can successfully make a bid for Bichette could depend at least in part on the Blue Jays. MLB.com’s Keegan Matheson<\/a> recently reported the club is expected to focus on their homegrown star during next week’s Winter Meetings in Orlando.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Red Sox are considering Bo Bichette as a potential “alternative” to re-signing star third baseman Alex…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-328344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}