Xander Bogaerts spent the last 10 years with the Boston Red Sox and will spend more than the next decade with the San Diego Padres, according to multiple reports.
Xander Bogaerts, #2 of the Boston Red Sox, walks across the field in the fifth inning against the Cincinnati Reds at Great American Ball Park on Sept. 20, 2022 in Cincinnati., who is in the middle of serving an 80-game suspension for testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs toward the end of last season.
"From our standpoint, you want to explore and make sure we’re looking at every possible opportunity to get better," Padres general manager A.J. Preller said before the Bogaerts deal came down."We’ve got a real desire to win and do it for a long time." Boston Red Sox's Xander Bogaerts fields the ball hit by Minnesota Twins' Luis Arraez during the fifth inning of a baseball game Aug. 31, 2022, in Minneapolis.Bogaerts had been a staple in the Red Sox lineup for the last few years. The four-time All-Star played for Boston for 10 years. He has hit 2.292 with an .814 OPS and 156 home runs. In 2022, he was an All-Star for the second consecutive season, he hit .307 with 15 home runs.
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