Alex Bregman couldn’t hold back the smile when he was asked who might have had the biggest impact on his decision to sign with the Boston Red Sox. “My favorite player Dustin Pedroia,” Bregman said of the club's former second baseman and two-time World Series champion.

Walker Buehler and Alex Bregman already share a racehorse. Now, they’ll share a clubhouse, too. In Bregman, the Red Sox are getting a player who really “knows himself,” Buehler said. “Obviously he struggled a little bit in the first half last year,