Jones & Keefe: Is Alex Bregman the leader the Red Sox have been missing?

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00:00There are a few things that Cora said today in that interview that I found interesting.

00:03One, I mean he basically called Bregman perfect.

00:07Like a perfect fit for this team, which honestly I kind of thought that all offseason.

00:12He's a leader, he's an adult in the room, he's won before, he has a relationship with Cora,

00:16they cheated together when they were in Houston.

00:18He won a title.

00:19He did.

00:20He has maybe some flexibility defensively, but third base would be a great fit to move

00:24Devers across the diamond and he's right-handed.

00:26So in a lot of ways he is a perfect fit.

00:28It's just interesting to hear Cora say that.

00:30But don't you think he's a perfect fit is a compliment to Bregman,

00:34but it's also very much an acknowledgment of what children, Devers, Kostas, and other guys might be?

00:40So I'm happy you said that because Cora had a separate answer and it was, I'm paraphrasing,

00:44but it was something like, we have adults in the room now.

00:47Yeah, they didn't before.

00:48Which I'm okay with saying.

00:50I've said, you've said, we all feel.

00:51Yeah, we're not the skipper though.

00:52Right, we needed leaders on this team.

00:54The Red Sox needed leaders on this team.

00:56It's interesting to hear him say it.

00:58Now we have adults in the room, which means you didn't in the past.

01:02And he went through and he highlighted J.D. Martinez's name.

01:05He highlighted Justin Turner's name.

01:07Yeah, Turner was a good leader.

01:08But he even said their D.H.s basically.

01:10Those weren't guys who could lead day in and day out.

01:13No.

01:13And that was kind of a minor shot at Devers.

01:16And Bregman's the kind of guy who's going to be out there.

01:18He's going to be running the base.

01:19He's going to be fielding the position.

01:20He's going to be a leader.

01:21Now look, he's a little bit of an apple polisher teacher's pet, it seems,

01:24if Cora's going to call him perfect.

01:26But I do think the team needed that.

01:28And Cora underscored that today.

01:29Yeah, because I think the loss of Bogarts affected Devers more than anybody else.

01:34Because clearly Bogarts hasn't really done much.

01:36And who knows what kind of player he would have been here.

01:37There was talks that he might have moved off a shortstop while he was here anyway and all that.

01:41But just the leader, a guy who'd been on the team for a long time, who had been through it all,

01:46and could kind of be the shield for Devers.

01:47He didn't rely on Devers to be the guy that had to answer questions during a losing streak and all

01:51that.

01:52And now you probably don't either.

01:54He's still got the $300 million deal, so you'll still go to him and you might expect some of that

01:58stuff.

01:59But a guy like Bregman is going to really kind of change how that all plays out in the clubhouse.

02:04And the most important thing is, if they're winning, then there's less hard conversations,

02:10less finger pointing, and less of that anyway.

02:12It's easy to not dwell on the struggles when you're not struggling.

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