Rarely has a player’s skill set – such as Alex Bregman’s statistics at Fenway Park – and contributions nestled so snugly together with a new team.

Yet rarely has a player’s skill set – such as Bregman’s punishing statistics ... Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Rōki Sasaki barely gave it a thought before they bolted to the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Rōki Sasaki, Tanner Scott, and re-signed Teoscar Hernández. But there's a real argument that Boston's additions of Garrett Crochet, Walker Buehler, Alex Bregman, and Aroldis Chapman could be he ...