Tanner Houck and Brayan Bello will join Giolito, Crochet and Buehler in the Sox’s starting rotation. Kutter Crawford looks to be the odd man out, but manager Alex Cora could go with a six-man rotation at certain times during the season.

When Alex Bregman put on a Red Sox jersey for the first time on Sunday morning, it was a full-circle moment and a destination decades in the making. It began long before Bregman was born into his baseball-loving family.