Sure sounds like Alex Bregman and Scott Boras are using the Cubs
Boras isn’t getting the long-term deal he covets, no matter how many teams he tries to use as leverage.
We’re now less than a week away from the beginning of spring training, and Alex Bregman appears no closer to finding a home for the 2025 MLB season. The Houston Astros, Boston Red Sox, Detroit Tigers, Toronto Blue Jays and Chicago Cubs have all expressed varying degrees of interest in the two-time All-Star throughout this offseason, but for whatever reason — his age, his role in Houston’s sign-stealing scandal, concerns about how his swing will translate away from the friendly confines of the Crawford Boxes — no one has yet been convinced to hand him the long-term deal he’s looking for.
All of which appears to be causing his agent, Scott Boras, a good deal of consternation. Especially after Pete Alonso was forced to come crawling back to the New York Mets earlier this week, Boras could really use a win. But no matter how hard he tries, he hasn’t been able to get the Bregman market to budge just yet, and now he’s running out of time. So, naturally, he’s doing what Boras always does when his back’s up against the wall: cynically dragging a team into the rumor mill for use as leverage.
