Xander Bogaerts deserves a lucrative extension from the Red Sox, and other thoughtsNice backhanded compliment!
Picked-up pieces while watching the NCAA basketball tournament …
▪ “We Take Care of Our Own.”
Rock bard Bruce Springsteen wrote this in 2012, and there are varying interpretations, but in the baseball spring of 2022, it’s clear that the Boston Red Sox — finally again spending like the big-market team they are — need to take care of their own as they prepare to launch the new season.
Sign Xander Bogaerts to a contract extension. As soon as possible. Lock him down from now until the end of the decade. Keep him in the fold.
Bogaerts is the Red Sox’ Patrice Bergeron. He is their Steve Grogan. He is their John Havlicek (OK, not quite that talented or impactful, but you get the idea).
A reader noted Shank's 'efforts' since the baseball work stoppage was resolved. We now have four columns in just under two weeks, for those keeping score at home.
1 comment:
I wonder whether X is willing to work out a contract similar to what Pedroia had with the Red Sox, that is, something long-term that almost guarantees that he will be with Boston until he retires. He does turn 30 this coming October, and his current contract, barring him walking away at the end of the season, potentially takes him to age 34. Sign him to stay another three to four years after that, and maybe he's a lifer (and possibly a future Hall of Fame player?).
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