It's still fair to question what the Sox are up to, but you will not hear any negativity from this typist in the wake of this acquisition.

Though Alex Bregman didn’t appear at the Fenway South complex on Thursday, it felt like he was ever-present. During the morning workout, Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow went over to Field 1 to watch many of the club’s top prospects.

Bregman, who turns 31 in March, is coming off a down year offensively in Houston where he hit .260 with a .768 OPS in 145 games. Despite the below-average season at the plate, Bregman owns a career .375 average and 1.240 OPS in 98 plate appearances at Fenway and figures to use the Green Monster in left to his advantage.