{"id":403448,"date":"2026-01-12T18:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/403448\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T18:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:57:08","slug":"insider-lays-out-red-soxs-2026-projected-lineup-following-alex-bregman-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/403448\/","title":{"rendered":"Insider Lays Out Red Sox&#8217;s 2026 Projected Lineup Following Alex Bregman News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite their status as the only MLB team yet to sign a free agent this offseason, the Boston Red Sox <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2026\/01\/mlb-insider-says-red-sox-among-most-improved-teams-this-offseason\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">have had a busy winter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Following multiple big trades to acquire the likes of first baseman Willson Contreras and starting pitchers Johan Oviedo and Sonny Gray, the Red Sox saw All-Star third baseman Alex Bregman sign with the Chicago Cubs.<\/p>\n<p>Boston is expected to continue pursuing two-time All-Star shortstop <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2026\/01\/report-some-in-red-sox-organization-seemed-to-prefer-bo-bichette-over-alex-bregman\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bo Bichette in free agency<\/a>, but if the 27-year-old signs elsewhere and the Red Sox make no more major moves, what might their 2026 Opening Day lineup look like?<\/p>\n<p>Beat reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6961817\/2026\/01\/12\/red-sox-options-alex-bregman-gone-free-agency\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jen McCaffrey of The Athletic<\/a> discussed the topic on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA team source noted the Red Sox are still pursuing another bat and will continue to explore free agency and the trade market. The options, however, are dwindling,\u201d McCaffrey wrote. \u201cGiven the calendar and the dwindling options for adding another bat, the Red Sox may be left to work with what they have until the trade deadline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>With manager Alex Cora <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2026\/01\/alex-cora-reveals-red-soxs-cleanup-hitter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recently revealing<\/a> that Contreras will \u201cprobably\u201d bat cleanup, here\u2019s what McCaffrey envisions the Red Sox lineup looking like with Bregman out of the picture.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Jarren Duran, LF<br \/>Roman Anthony DH<br \/>Trevor Story, SS<br \/>Willson Contreras 1B<br \/>Wilyer Abreu, RF<br \/>Carlos Narvaez, C<br \/>Marcelo Mayer, 3B<br \/>Kristian Campbell, 2B<br \/>Ceddanne Rafaela, CF<\/p>\n<p>Outside of Contreras, the rest of the starting nine would be returners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The biggest difference between what Boston had in the lineup during their AL wild-card series loss vs. the New York Yankees in October and what fans are expected to see on Opening Day, however, is the return of star outfielder Roman Anthony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite their status as the only MLB team yet to sign a free agent this offseason, the Boston&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[47415,28647,33559,28642,47420,61737,363,16344,99,28646,7648,61864],"class_list":{"0":"post-403448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-alex-cora","9":"tag-carlos-narvaez","10":"tag-ceddanne-rafaela","11":"tag-jarren-duran","12":"tag-kristian-campbell","13":"tag-marcelo-mayer","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-roman-anthony","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-trevor-story","18":"tag-willson-contreras","19":"tag-wilyer-abreu"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}