Red Sox Chief Baseball Officer, Craig Breslow, yesterday on NESN, on trade deadline "We have to take them seriously" Thoughts?
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00:00Here's Craig Breslow talking on Nessun about the trade deadline.
00:04The Red Sox with the best record in Major League Baseball, as you know, since the 19th of May at 30-18.
00:10Are you convinced this is a playoff team and the Red Sox have to add in the second half?
00:15Well, you know, I think we first have to start with crediting the players on the field, the staff.
00:20But yeah, I mean, I think this team has put themselves in a position where we have to take them seriously, right?
00:25Like, the job that they have to do is win as many games as possible, and they're doing that.
00:29And they'll continue to do that. It's my hope. It's my expectation.
00:32And we need to be thinking about opportunities for us to improve the club.
00:36Cool. All right.
00:38A lot of gobbledygook there.
00:40But he said that we have to do that based on – that's why I say when they – when you look at when they come back from –
00:46after the all-star break, and it's that nine-game stretch where I think, Curtis, you had said it,
00:51the Dodgers, Colorado, and the Yankees, that will take them up to July 28th or 29th.
00:56Based on what they do, if they continue to play the way that they're playing,
01:01and I think it's like even like he knows it, everybody knows it, you just – you have to add.
01:09And I think he kind of lightweight said it where he's like, well, we have to.
01:13Right. But that's – why is that the mindset?
01:15I know I'm yelling, you know, they're not going to change.
01:18But at no other point since John Henry purchased the club in 2001 would you even question
01:25whether or not they'd be adding.
01:27And the fact that Craig Breslow views this as a chore, like, oh, we'll have to.
01:33It's the way they've changed their philosophy in the past couple of years as far as financially.
01:38That's just the approach that they've taken.
01:40You're right, and he is implementing it. Good point, Wiggs.