Cora told reporters, via ESPN<\/a>. “… My biggest concern is the defensive part of it: The nine innings out there, going into the dugout, going back and forth, the popup down the line, the bunts and all that, but he has checked almost every box.”<\/p>\nAdvertisement<\/p>\n
Bregman didn’t make a minor league appearance while working his way back to action for the Red Sox.<\/p>\n
“You gain, I don’t know, five, six or seven at-bats [in a rehab assignment], so why not get them here?” Cora said.<\/p>\n
Before his injury, Bregman was slashing .299\/.385\/.553 with 11 home runs, 17 doubles and 35 RBI. His .299 batting average is the highest of his career.<\/p>\n
Even though he’s played only 51 games this season, he still earned a spot on the AL All-Star team, along with Red Sox ace Garrett Crochet and reliever Aroldis Chapman. Bregman, however, will not play in Tuesday’s All-Star game at Atlanta’s Truist Park.<\/p>\n
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Bregman previously made two All-Star teams with the Houston Astros, first in 2018 and then in 2019. He won two World Series titles in his nine seasons with the Astros.<\/p>\n
Bregman signed a three-year, $120 million deal with the Red Sox this offseason.<\/p>\n
Boston entered Friday fourth in the AL East standings with a 50-45 record, five games back of the first-place Toronto Blue Jays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Red Sox are riding a seven-game win streak before the All-Star break, and one of their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[858,1113,191,5,141,48,2542,1314,922,54,4,89,2543,68,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-169047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-red-sox","8":"tag-alex-cora","9":"tag-aroldis-chapman","10":"tag-atlanta","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-boston","13":"tag-boston-red-sox","14":"tag-bostonredsox","15":"tag-bregman","16":"tag-garrett-crochet","17":"tag-houston-astros","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-red-sox","20":"tag-redsox","21":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","22":"tag-toronto-blue-jays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114836519353291597","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}