No one in the Greater Boston Area is happy about losing Alex Bregman. The ostensible long-term replacement for Rafael Devers (and also the man who started the whole Devers saga in the first place), Bregman played 114 games for the Red Sox and made $40 million, then went on his merry way in free agency and got the Chicago Cubs to sign him a $175 million check.
None of this is to blame Bregman — who will make $215 million over a six-year span — for leaving. The Red Sox weren't willing to include a no-trade clause in their offer to him, which, after the Devers and Mookie Betts debacles, was a fair ask from a superstar player.