Let's preview the Boston Red Sox for 2026 up next on Fantasy Baseball today.

Welcome to On the Beat, our team preview series here at Fantasy Baseball today.

I am Chris Towers, joined by Jen McCaffrey, who covers the Red Sox for the Athletic.

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And it's been an eventful offseason for the Boston Red Sox. We recorded one of these

a couple of weeks ago and then I think the day of Ranger Suarez signed with the Red Sox. That was

one of their biggest moves. They also acquired Sonny Gray and Wilson Contreras from the Cardinals

and separate deals. They acquired Johann Oviedo from the Pirates for Yostinson

Garcia. They sent von Grissom to the Angels, but this is all within the context of losing

Alex Bregman after trading away Raphael Devers to ostensibly make room for Alex Bregman. So

it's been a lot ups and downs for the Red Sox, but I think on the whole it's been a very good offseason.

It's just it leads to some real questions for this team because for all the success they've had with this farm system the last couple of years, they kind of have some overflow at a couple of key positions.

So the first big question we've got for EGEN heading into spring training.

Is there enough room for Christian Campbell and Marcella Meyer in this lineup?

Yeah, that's going to be one of the main things we're watching here in spring training.

Campbell played winter ball in Puerto Rico, actually, for the Red Sox bench coach, Ramon Vasquez.

And actually a team right in Alex

Corr's hometown in Cagos, Puerto Rico. So they had close eyes on him. And he played down there

for about three, four weeks, I want to say, only in the outfield. They eventually want him to

continue, you know, having that versatility of the in-field outfield. He came up,

obviously, as a second baseman last year and struggled a little bit. But the reason they're kind

of putting him in the outfield for now is just they want him to focus just on getting his

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