The morning after Alex Bregman made his free-agent decision, Fred Petersen sent a text to his former boss with the Boston Red Sox, Amiel Sawdaye.
“We got BERGMAN,” Petersen wrote.
With that, a running joke between those who were with the Red Sox when the team drafted Bregman in 2012 came full circle.
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Sawdaye, now an assistant general manager with the Arizona Diamondbacks, was the Sox’s amateur scouting director when the Sox chose Bregman out of Albuquerque (N.M.) Academy in the 29th round. Petersen, who at the time was a crosschecker and remains with the club as an area scout, was announcing the names of the team’s later picks on the conference
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