I like Hoerner, who is an excellent all around 2b. Breslow, the former Cubs farm director, might have stronger preferences for Massachusetts native Matt Shaw, who was the Cubs first round pick in his final year with the organization…
That’s another option.
Theres not much available for good shortstops on both sides of the ball right now.
My prediction right now thr Sox will wind up with Alec Bohm at 3b. I have mixed emotions there. Most of them are not good…
My silver lining is I can go back to hating Alex Bregman, although he actually did seem to be a pretty positive addition overall. Still, it’s nice to have the option again.
But I’ll probably see him play in person at least half a dozen times this year…
Gallen isn’t horrible.
I wouldn’t put him in the same class as Richard, Kluber, etc. Hes not coming off injury and he was worth over 12 fWAR from 2022-2024. He just had a rough 2025.
He’s also somehow still only 30 and he looks like a high school chemistry teacher.
His 1.1 fWAR in 2025 wasn’t that much worse than Bello (1.9 fWAR). Of course it’s also equal to what Early gave Boston in a microscopic 14 IP.
I get why he rejected the QO. But the combination makes him much less desirable…
I’m 99% certain Sox fans lump all the GMs/CBOs into two categories - Dombrowski and Not Dombrowski.
Turns out Bloom and Breslow fall into the same category…
They unloaded like 10 players on 2 days and were one season removed from just missing the playoffs and they’re in a very weak division.
That fire sale wasn’t about rebuilding or reloading…
It does make me wonder if it’s a common thing where players/agents report better offers than thy have to improve actual ones. We all know Boras uses “mystery team” to up the bidding…