said<\/a> on Tuesday, via The Athletic. \u201cNot many people can do it. You see the Kik\u00e9s (Hernandez), the Chris Taylors, Brock Holts, these guys who\u2019ve had so much success, and they\u2019re valuable, valuable players. <\/p>\n\u201cSo having that opportunity to really dive into that utility role, instead of just playing one position and being a mid position player, I get to focus on being one of the top utility players in the league.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Kiner-Falefa is expected to play second base, third base, and shortstop to give Durbin, Marcelo Mayer, and Trevor Story days off\u00a0when they need.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The veteran infielder also pointed to Rob Refsnyder having success in a similar role in Boston as to why he signed with the Red Sox.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe way Refsnyder bounced around and then landed a great deal is a good example for me to see how the Red Sox develop hitters, not just young guys, but the middle-aged players,\u201d Kiner-Falefa said. <\/p>\n
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\u201cRomy (Gonzalez), the things that he\u2019s been able to do too. So, just looking across the roster, the steps that the young guys make, the veterans, the middle players, it was very eye-opening for me. I\u2019m looking forward to the opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kiner-Falefa hit .262 with two home runs and 40 RBIs last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Red Sox signed veteran infielder Isiah Kiner-Falefa to a one-year, $6 million deal to add some…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[5,141,48,2542,2057,4,89,2543],"class_list":{"0":"post-566407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-red-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-red-sox","11":"tag-bostonredsox","12":"tag-isiah-kiner-falefa","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-red-sox","15":"tag-redsox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116052795337517587","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566407","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=566407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}