It’s already become apparent that St. Louis Cardinals third baseman Nolan Arenado views the Boston Red Sox highly this offseason.

So much so, that the club is quickly becoming regarded as the team to land Arenado in the 33-year-old’s anticipated departure from St. Louis. Arenado generated trade interest from the Houston Astros, but wanted no part of H-Town, leaving others across the league including Boston among those still in the running.

“The Red Sox have emerged as a strong candidate to land Arenado via a trade from the Cardinals, a source told MLB.com in recent days,” MLB insider John Denton reported Monday. “Boston could be close to pulling out of the sweepstakes for free-agent third baseman Alex Bregman, who could potentially command a deal worth $200 million, per the source.”

Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow has checked off a few boxes from the organization’s offseason wish list, however, the one still standing unaddressed is a right-handed bat. Boston missed out on Teoscar Hernández and failed to retain Tyler O’Neill, pushing Arenado ahead in the line of the best available alternatives.

It also wouldn’t cost the team a large multi-year commitment either as Arenado has $74 million remaining on his contract with the Cardinals.

Arenado, an eight-time All-Star and 10-time Gold Glove Award recipient, batted .272 with 16 home runs and 71 RBIs across 152 games played. That marked Arenado’s fewest homers hit in the past four seasons, and his first All-Star Game miss since 2020, but Fenway Park could be the solution for both the 12-year veteran and the Red Sox.

Fenway Park is regarded as a right-handed hitter’s dream setting and could be for Arenado.

Playing a Busch Stadium, which features a 336-foot and 375-foot wall in left field, generated 13 home runs from Arenado’s bat toward that side of the field — none went opposite field. St. Louis presents a harsher setting for Arenado’s right-handed swing than Fenway Park’s 310-foot Green Monster wall, which could help generate an uptick in power as Arenado looks to re-establish himself in 2025.

Another factor to be mindful of is Boston’s starting shortstop Trevor Story.

Arenado and Story were both teammates for six seasons with the Colorado Rockies, representing the National League club for two All-Star Game’s together. Story has spent the last three years in Boston, striving help get the team over the hump and to its first playoff appearance since 2021.

Together the two could bolster the Red Sox’s infield chances of contending next season.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk's losing streak continued on Wednesday.

Hours after Republicans in Wisconsin lost a state Supreme Court race in Wisconsin where Musk spent tens of millions of dollars of his own money, shares of his flagship electric car company fell upon news that it had badly missed Wall Street estimates for the number of vehicles it had delivered in the first quarter of 2025.

As reported by Market Watch, Tesla revealed that "it delivered more than 336,000 vehicles during the first quarter, down from 387,000 deliveries a year ago."

To put this number into context, Market Watch notes that it "was well below the average analyst estimate compiled by FactSet of 404,000 vehicles" and it "was also lower than the 'whisper' number, or what Wall Street was quietly expecting, with even the most bullish analyst projecting a number in the 360,000 range."

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Although Tesla blamed the disappointing deliveries on what Market Watch describes as "the changeover to refreshed Model Y production lines" that "led to several weeks of lost production," it's also a reality that the company has been the target of a concerted boycott campaign led by progressive groups to protest Musk's role as the head of President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency.

Sales of Tesla in Europe have fallen off a cliff in recent months, as car buyers on that continent have revolted against Musk's support for far-right political parties such as Germany's Alternative für Deutschland.