Alex Bregman's Controversial Position with Red Sox

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00:00All right, so let's listen to Rafi Devers.

00:04Yeah, so, of course, Bregman signs.

00:07They run to Devers.

00:08They saw Bregman taking ground balls at third.

00:11They go to Devers.

00:12Are you willing to do anything else besides third base?

00:16Let's see what he says.

00:18So, are you saying if they ask you to D.H.,

00:20you're willing to do it?

00:21No.

00:25Can you expand on that?

00:28I played third.

00:29What's there to expand on?

00:31I mean, it's over.

00:32I played third.

00:33He's not doing it.

00:34I played third.

00:35Now, look, I think that some, this is also tough.

00:37You saw he's sitting there with the translator,

00:39and then after that, it starts ramping

00:41through the translator, more of the explanations.

00:44But the story remains the same.

00:47The guy don't want to play anywhere else.

00:49He wants to play third base.

00:51He was told by Chaim Blum, when he resigned,

00:54he'd be the third baseman.

00:55Problem is, as Alex Gore is about to tell you,

00:58Chaim Blum ain't there anymore.

01:00He don't run the Red Sox.

01:02The other guy runs them now, Breslau.

01:04Breslau runs the Sox, and so does Alex Gore.

01:07He said when he signed the long-term extension

01:10that you guys said that he'd be the third baseman long-term.

01:13Do you think the relationship is strained right now?

01:15He doesn't seem happy that, like,

01:17the team has gone back on their word.

01:20It's strange between different people here, right?

01:24There's a different leader here, so, you know,

01:26Chaim is in St. Louis right now.

01:29Okay, so let's get real here for a second.

01:33I don't deny that Alex Bregman is a good player,

01:37and he's been on a really good team,

01:41winning chips and division titles

01:44and being in the playoffs every year.

01:46But I also, I question the deal that he got.

01:53I don't think he's worth that anymore.

01:55I think he's old, and I think Devers is a better player,

01:59and I think he's a bigger hitter,

02:02and that's all there is to it.

02:04Now, you want to move him to DH,

02:06and he wants to play third base, and he's not having it,

02:09and you're going to choose this old white guy

02:12over that badass Devers?

02:14You must be drunk.

02:16Honestly, Mike, you have to admit

02:19that Devers is a better player, and he's a bigger hitter,

02:23bigger home-run hitter, everything else.

02:25I won't deny Bregman can bag it,

02:27and I won't deny that he's a good player,

02:30but I think his best years are over.

02:33Nobody else wanted him.

02:35Nobody wanted him.

02:37I mean, he had offers.

02:38They were all crappy offers.

02:41Excuse me.

02:43Teams wanted him, and they offered him crappy numbers

02:46because he's old.

02:48That's it.

02:49What did he do, three years at $120 million?

02:52Because no one thinks he's going to be playing baseball

02:55in four years.

02:58I think that there's no question,

03:00if you ask me who do I not want to face in a big spot,

03:05game on the line, it's Devers.

03:07Now, they're talking more about things like, you know,

03:11him at third base, defensively, athletically, you know,

03:15Bregman's better than him defensively, whatever.

03:18I want to keep that guy happy if he was my third base,

03:21but here's the real problem that it causes.

03:24It's the first week of camp,

03:26and I'm sure maybe no one will remember this stuff

03:29when you actually start playing real games,

03:31but it causes a problem all around camp

03:34because what did I see today? This was all yesterday.

03:36Then what did the reporters do today?

03:37Remember, this is Boston.

03:39Boston, Philly, New York.

03:41They start asking everybody else.

03:43They start asking everybody else.

03:44So the first baseman today, Tristan Kass, you know,

03:46they ask him, and what does he say?

03:48Oh, you know, Rafi should be the third baseman.

03:51You know, so now you're asking, you guys picking sides.

03:53Most won't. Most are smart and will say,

03:57well, I'll let the manager figure that out,

03:58but, like, this guy Kass goes,

04:00yeah, you know, Rafi should be the third baseman.

04:02You know, that's his spot.

04:04So now you've got other guys on the team being asked about it,

04:07and it becomes a problem.

04:09So now Bregman's new. He's probably like,

04:11you know, screw this guy.

04:12You don't like me, this guy at first base?

04:14So it just causes diversion in the locker room

04:17that you don't need.

04:20Why can't he play? Why can't he play second base?

04:31Oh, my God.

04:33What they should do is beat the shack out of that guy

04:36and stuff him in the back of a car.

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