Were you by any chance looking for something to endlessly talk about until the last week of February?

You’re in luck.

Jon Heyman, full-time New York Post baseball writer and part-time Scott Boras ventriloquist dummy, reported tonight that Alex Bregman is opting out of the two remaining years on his Red Sox contract, which was set to pay him an additional $80 million. A mere eight months after Red Sox CBO Craig Breslow finally put an end to last offseason’s most protracted free agency saga by offering Bregman a short-term/high-AAV deal — and a tremendous amount of bargaining power in the form of those opt-outs — we now get to do it all over again.

Will the sequel be any different than the original? Last year, it was only the Tigers and Red Sox who were in on Bregman at anywhere near his

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