Red Sox should pursue Carlos Correa to replace Xander Bogaerts. Of course, Correa can't stay on the field regularly, has never played in Boston and, despite showing some better peripheral numbers than Bogaerts, has an OPS of .817, far beneath Bogaerts' .880, since the start of the 2018 season, when manager Alex Cora left Correa's Astros to join Bogaerts' Red Sox. And if a Red Sox team that struggled to make contact all year in 2022 is going to get rid of its best contact hitter, Bogaerts, and replace him with a free-swinging guy who strikes out almost 200 times a year, it probably won't end well. That's a scary thing for Red Sox fans who want to see a star player replace Bogaerts.
