While it’s true that I’ve never been the biggest Alex Bregman fan, I promise my affinity for wanting BoBichette to fill out the Red Sox’s infield next season is not due to bias from that (mostly).
At the
end of October, I wrote about Bichette and made my case for Boston bringing him in *if* Bregman or Story walked over the offseason. While it’s still very early into the offseason (and the Winter Meetings are just beginning), for some reason, it feels like the chance of Bregman returning to Boston grows smaller by the day. And since I wrote that article, the buzz around Bichette coming to Boston has only grown, which makes me feel like a fortune teller or something, even though I’m not. (Though I once did say the Red Sox should sign Collin McHugh, and they did so three days later, so take that for what you will. Yes, he never played in Boston and his greatest moment as a Red Sox was releasing a bunch of ladybugs into the garden on top of Fenway before promptly deciding he wasn’t going to play in the 2020 season four days later. But it’s the principle of the ordeal that truly matters).
Similar to last year, this year’s Winter Meetings have started out slow and arduous, with plenty of rumors and rumblings but no solidity to come out of them. The talk around Bichette and the Red Sox has remained relatively vague (as have most things, at this point), but even the proliferation of these rumors has me excited. Admittedly, I probably will never be fond of Alex Bregman and will be angry about how he got to Boston and what transpired after he got here, but he was an obvious contributor in 2025, and for that, I thank him. However, for a team filled with youth and especially with a very young infield (outside of Trevor Story, obviously, but his bounceback last year has me much more compelled to keep him in the mix as a relatively reliable bat and defender) I see an addition of the soon-to-be 28-year-old Bichette as a better move than keeping Bregman, who struggled with some injuries last year and is almost 32. Bichette has also dealt with injuries, but they’ve seemingly been less serious, and he’s played over 135 games in four of his five full seasons in the majors (with the exception coming due to a couple of calf strains and the ultimate fracture of a finger in 2024).
I won’t go into a ton of detail about why Bichette would be a good move, besides the fact that his swing profile fits very well in Fenway and his flow is reminiscent of a 2017 Andrew Benintendi, since I already yapped about it in detail in my article from October.
But just look at his spray chart from last year overlaid over Fenway Park. It takes my breath away.
Thinking of a Mayer, Story, Bichette, Casas/Romy/TBD infield is something straight out of a dream for me, and would offer a fantastic chance for me as a Coloradan to support both a Rockies and Red Sox legend’s son every day! It’s finally time for us to recognize Dante Bichette’s contributions to the early 2000s Red Sox that shaped an eventual championship-winning team. Some have even called him the Pokey Reese of 2001.
