


FORT MYERS, Fla. – 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, and I talked to him and he was like, ‘I just gotta be me again’ and kind of get back to what he had always kind of felt,” the right-hander explained. “Ever since I’ve seen him play he’s been one of the better players on the field, starting at LSU as a freshman.”
He described Bregman as “a very confident player, a guy I think will handle Boston well, hopefully, and has played really well at Fenway.”
To say that Bregman will have a home-field advantage is an understatement of historic proportions. His 1.240 OPS at Fenway outranks all major leaguers with at least 75 plate appearances in baseball’s oldest cathedral; his .490 on-base percentage is only outdone by Ted Williams’ .496, and his .750 slugging percentage ranks second behind Dave Kingman’s .816. In the Astros’ three games at Fenway last season, Bregman went 7-for-12 with a pair of doubles, two home runs, three walks, and zero strikeouts.
Bregman and Buehler are among the additions with proven postseason track records; the former won the ‘17 and ‘22 World Series with the Astros, the latter has Dodgers rings from ‘20 and ‘24. That, too, will be crucial for a clubhouse with many young players who’ve never even played in October.
“I think every guy that we’ve added this year has some level of that,” Buehler said of Bregman’s intensity and baseball IQ. “You’ve got the championship pedigree and a lot of success in Houston and even at LSU.
“I think the more you can kind of go through those experiences and play in the playoffs and play in big games, it carries over, and I think both of us over the past six, seven, eight years, kind of gotten to experience that, and are looking forward to doing that here.”