I don’t disagree, but that was the persistent reporting from multiple sources, so assuming that’s true, it makes no sense he spend seven years in Detroit instead of six, versus three in Boston.
The bottom line is, there’s no way he was ever coming to Detroit. The ballpark is death to right handed power hitters. It would’ve hurt his stats to come here, and if there’s one thing Alex Bregman is concerned about more than anything else, it’s his stats. Because there is no way that the Red Sox are in a dramatically better position—or in any better position at all—to make the playoffs than the Tigers are. So if it’s really about winning, he just went to the worse bet.