{"id":96830,"date":"2025-09-22T12:12:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T12:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=96830"},"modified":"2025-09-22T12:12:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T12:12:33","slug":"mlb-analyst-reveals-key-choice-red-sox-must-make-to-succeed-in-the-postseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=96830","title":{"rendered":"MLB analyst reveals key choice Red Sox must make to succeed in the postseason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>MLB analyst reveals key choice Red Sox must make to succeed in the postseason originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There is a week left in the season, and the Boston Red Sox are holding onto the last Wild Card slot by a thread.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s say they make the postseason; they\u2019re still going to need to address a lot of things. According to Fansided\u2019s Zachary Rotman, Alex Bregman\u2019s position in the batting order is at the top of the list.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0Red Sox Gold Glove outfielder Wilyer Abreu activated from IL; will play tonight<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels insane that I&#8217;m even asking this question, but how can I not? Alex Bregman looked like the perfect fit in Boston for the first three or four months of the season, but he&#8217;s gone ice-cold at the worst possible time. Even after hitting a home run and drawing a pair of walks on Friday night, Bregman is slashing .200\/.288\/.338 with two home runs and seven RBI in September, and he is hitting .162 with a .503 OPS in his last 25 games,\u201d Rotman wrote.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, Bregman was one of the best hitters on the team, on track for 30+ homers and an average of .300. Now, he\u2019s slashing .275\/.359\/.470\/.829 and has 18 homers.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Rotman continued, writing that Bregman deserves to play every game of the postseason, but maybe not at the top of the lineup.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0MLB analyst reveals Red Sox&#8217; dream trade that they wish they could make right now<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all know Bregman will, and should, play every single postseason game, but should he continue to hit second or third as he&#8217;s done exclusively this season? Admittedly, Roman Anthony being out makes it harder to move Bregman away from the top of the order, and it&#8217;s not as if anyone on the team has done much to threaten Bregman&#8217;s place in the lineup, but his production just isn&#8217;t close to worthy of a guy who should be hitting high up in the order,\u201d Rotman concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully Bregman gets hot in this final week, so he can ride it into the postseason and not have this over his head.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE\u00a0BOSTON RED SOX\u00a0NEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Red Sox insider finds idea of Alex Bregman testing free agency unlikely after massive end of season slump<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>MLB insider reveals Red Sox&#8217; chances at reunion with $79 million MVP candidate are now slim to none<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Red Sox flamethrowing rookie Payton Tolle receives new position with team after two mediocre starts<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the Sox want to make a run, they need to figure this out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":96831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[238,47,3782,761,198,2477],"class_list":["post-96830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","tag-alex-bregman","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-postseason-game","tag-roman-anthony","tag-wilyer-abreu","tag-zachary-rotman"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - 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