{"id":23443,"date":"2025-01-04T01:06:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T01:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=23443"},"modified":"2025-01-04T01:06:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T01:06:23","slug":"walker-buehler-says-hes-made-a-pitch-for-top-free-agent-to-join-him-with-red-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=23443","title":{"rendered":"Walker Buehler says he\u2019s \u2018made a pitch\u2019 for top free agent to join him with Red Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>When Walker Buehler was making his free agency decision, he chose Boston in large part because he felt the Red Sox were a talented group on the verge of a big year.<\/p>\n<p>If Buehler has his way, he won\u2019t be coming alone.<\/p>\n<p>Buehler is close friends with longtime Houston Astros infielder Alex Bregman, the top remaining right-handed hitter on the free agent marketplace. The two own a racehorse together that recently took its first win last week at Santa Anita, and Buehler said he\u2019s recruited the two-time All-Star to join him in Boston.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have certainly made a pitch all over the place for him to come to Boston,\u201d Buehler said. \u201cHe and I have been buddies for a long time, we played on Team USA a little bit in college and being from Lexington, the horse stuff is always something I\u2019ve been super interested in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Buehler and Bregman both have extensive championship experience and would immediately become two of the most battle tested players on the Red Sox roster. Both are two-time World Series champions, and Buehler recently recorded the final out of the 2024 World Series, throwing a scoreless ninth inning to help the Dodgers finish off the\u00a0Yankees in Game 5 of the World Series.<\/p>\n<p>Coming off his second Tommy John surgery, Buehler endured a rocky 2024 but turned the corner in the playoffs. Now the two-time All-Star will go into the new season looking to reestablish himself as one of the top pitchers in baseball, and hopefully help elevate his new team in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Buehler said he\u2019s known for about three or four weeks that he\u2019d likely land in Boston and was intrigued by the prospect of working with pitching coach Andrew Bailey. He also liked the makeup of the Red Sox starting rotation and the state of the roster as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of young talent in Boston and a lot of major league proven talent, and a team that I think is ready and able to compete in the division and in the whole league,\u201d Buehler said. \u201cI\u2019m very excited, I have a couple of buddies or know a few guys that are there already that I\u2019m looking forward to playing with and all and all it seemed like a pretty good fit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, the one year in Boston and joining a winning franchise and a historical franchise and a team that has a real chance to win was the best option for me,\u201d he added later.<\/p>\n<p>Buehler compared the Red Sox favorably to the 2018 World Series champions, saying the current club is similarly positioned to that group with proven veterans like Rafael Devers and Trevor Story complemented by rising stars like Jarren Duran, who he said just had a \u201cbig boy year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we\u2019ve got all the pieces,\u201d Buehler said. \u201cIt is kind of similar and there\u2019s some momentum, especially after the (Garrett) Crochet trade. We\u2019ll see what happens before spring training in terms of other additions, but I certainly think there\u2019s the talent in that building to do some really great things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The final piece of the 2018 puzzle \u2014 J.D. Martinez \u2014 famously didn\u2019t sign until late in the offseason, and Buehler would love for history to repeat itself again with Bregman. Regardless of where his friend and business partner winds up, Buehler is betting that the Red Sox are ready for a breakout and that the club has the horses it needs to win the race.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walker Buehler signed with the Red Sox because he believes the club is primed for a breakout, and if the right-hander has his way, he won\u2019t be coming to Boston alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":23444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[238,47,44,114,493],"class_list":["post-23443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","tag-alex-bregman","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-mlb","tag-red-sox","tag-walker-buehler"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Walker Buehler says he\u2019s \u2018made a pitch\u2019 for top free agent to join him with Red Sox - 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