{"id":2952,"date":"2025-10-15T04:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T04:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/2952\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T04:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T04:25:12","slug":"alex-bregman-will-have-plenty-of-options-after-red-sox-opt-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/2952\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Bregman will have plenty of options after Red Sox opt-out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Bregman will be opting out of his current Red Sox deal, sources say, and off his fine first year in Boston, there <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/04\/sports\/predicting-where-top-25-mlb-free-agents-could-land-this-offseason\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">could be an extra suitor or two<\/a>, potentially including at least one surprise team (mentioned below) \u2014 although Boston still seems like a logical fit.<\/p>\n<p>Bregman\u2019s baseball-first attitude made sense for Boston. The Red Sox still have the $250M-plus saved from <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/17\/sports\/red-sox-divorce-with-rafael-devers-was-incompetent-or-brilliant\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Rafael Devers trade<\/a>, and loved the veteran leadership of Bregman, the only player to play in the past eight Octobers.<\/p>\n<p>But the field should include more teams, making it an easy call to opt out of his deal, which calls for $80M over the next two years. The Tigers are the most obvious suitor with his old Astros manager A.J. Hinch. The Tigers offered $171.5M over six years last year, and he countered about $10M higher before taking Boston\u2019s three-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>The Jays and Mariners, playing in the ALCS, are among other possible fits, but there could be some surprise teams. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Bregman will be opting out of his current Red Sox deal, sources say, and off his fine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3471,3472,2589,20,3473,9,11,10,319,431,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-2952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-alex-bregman","9":"tag-boston-red-sox","10":"tag-detroit-tigers","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-mlb-free-agency","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-news","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-columnists","18":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}