{"id":545974,"date":"2026-03-19T04:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T04:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/545974\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T04:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T04:00:13","slug":"alex-bregmans-red-sox-replacement-at-3b-revealed-ahead-of-2026-mlb-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/545974\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Bregman&#8217;s Red Sox Replacement at 3B Revealed Ahead of 2026 MLB Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Boston Red Sox have their Opening Day third baseman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The recently-acquired Caleb Durbin <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/48243347\/caleb-durbin-start-third-base-red-sox-opening-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">confirmed to reporters<\/a> on Wednesday that he&#8217;ll be the starter at a position that was one of the team&#8217;s bigger question marks this spring after the departure of Alex Bregman in free agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;I&#8217;m going to stick at third from now on,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Up until that, I guess it was pretty much just looking at the board and wherever I was that day\u2014and I was mostly at third, obviously. But [manager Alex Cora] said I&#8217;m going to stay put at third for now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Durbin had played some second base and shortstop last season, but third was his primary position. It sounds as though that won&#8217;t change in Boston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;I love third base. I&#8217;m excited,&#8221; he told reporters. &#8220;I&#8217;m ready wherever the team needs me, though, is kind of the idea. But they feel good with me at third. I obviously feel good at third. So, excited. Hopefully stick around there for a little bit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Durbin, 26, hit .256 with 11 home runs and 53 RBI as a rookie for the Milwaukee Brewers last season. He was part of a <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/47876372\/sources-red-sox-acquiring-caleb-durbin-trade-brewers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">six-player trade<\/a> in February and has hit .394 in spring training with seven RBI and three stolen bases. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">His primary competition at third, Marcelo Mayer, has hit .250 with a homer and two RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Red Sox have their Opening Day third baseman. The recently-acquired Caleb Durbin confirmed to reporters on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-545974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545974","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=545974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}