Jones & Keefe: Who will be the Red Sox Opening Day third baseman?

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00:00Your opening day third baseman the same as mine Bregman. Yeah, who is the opening day third baseman for the Red Sox?

00:05I think it's gonna be Devers and I think

00:08Maybe they give him sort of like an opportunity and sort of see how it goes

00:11I also think it has as much to do with that as the other positions because right now

00:16And Cora does definitely throw a little bit of a curveball yesterday in his response to it

00:20But right now their best hitting lineup would involve Devers at third and Bregman at second

00:27I don't know unless Christian Campbell's unbelievable and even then they might not say he's ready to start at second

00:33So does that mean you want someone like Von Grissom to start or Romy Gonzalez to start?

00:39Plus not that you and I think it's a huge issue, but you are paying Masataka Yoshida 18.6 million to DH

00:46Right, like so I'd say sit on the bench so what I but I don't think they will

00:50I think money John Henry might be like why am I paying this guy 18 million to sit on the bench?

00:54So you're right Cora's probably more annoyed about how adamant Devers was about like that's such a selfish response

00:59He's probably pissed about that. But in the back of his mind, he's like

01:03Well, we have to move him off position

01:05He doesn't want to we then have to sit on a 19 million dollar player to not DH and we don't even feel like we

01:10Have an everyday second baseman right off the rip

01:12So I bet they start Bregman Devers Yoshida in second third DH and then as the season goes on

01:19Maybe Devers boots a couple of balls

01:21Maybe Christian Campbell lights it up and then you say hey Bregman

01:24Sorry that we had to do this to you for a month

01:26But now you can go play third and Yoshida will figure out maybe there's a trade somewhere and then Devers here the DH

01:31So I'll just say this in the meantime mega used the word like she'd be annoyed yesterday if that happened

01:36I think that's the right word for it. Like I would be annoyed if that's how it played out

01:40But okay, really at the end of the day, no harm. No foul if Bregman plays second for a month

01:45He eventually moves to third Devers eventually moves to DH Yoshida's eventually out of here

01:49It would be annoying in the meantime, but no real harm. No foul at the end of the day. I

01:54Think Bregman's your opening day third baseman. I

01:57Think the way that and that's not just what I would do. I think the way that Cora responded yesterday

02:01He tells you they was something Dave

02:03Made up their mind maybe just lashing out cuz he told Devers. Hey, let's handle this professionally and he did it. I have no idea

02:10But I would wager on Bregman being your opening day third baseman after that, which I guess begs the question

02:15Why do you think it's such a big deal?