Two years in the past, first baseman Jake Bauers wasn’t positive if he’d ever play baseball once more.
Coming off a 2024 season wherein he hit .199, Bauers had determined to hold the cleats up and step away from baseball. Plans modified, although, and after an unimaginable two-year stretch highlighted by Bauers profitable NLCS MVP, the 31-year-old agreed to an enormous contract on Friday.
Jake Bauers is headed to the Boston Crimson Sox
Based on ESPN MLB insider Jeff Passan, Bauers and the Boston Red Sox are in settlement on a four-year, $58 million contract.
The deal is available in gentle of a breakout 2026 season wherein Bauers slashed .266/.389/.484, good for an OPS of .874 with 22 doubles, 26 dwelling runs and 86 RBI.
Bauers’ addition to the Boston lineup is far wanted, because it fell beneath league common in a number of offensive classes final season, together with slugging share (nineteenth) and OPS (nineteenth).
