The Red Sox were swept by the Dodgers over the weekend, will the team still add at the deadline?
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00:00i guess even when i hear that like it's very hard to walk back that you're saying that you intend to
00:04buy this is the kind of thing that can dramatically shift it not this series but if they go into
00:10colorado now a bad team and they have guys like kenley jansen can't go and they're obviously
00:16struggling with their relievers right now if they go and they get swept by colorado or they lose
00:23this series to colorado that's the kind of thing that i think can point that the front office can
00:28point to or ownership if they're even clued in can point to and go well this happens every year
00:34with the team of this caliber with what we pay and what our plan is right now they go into the
00:38all-star break and then they lose this momentum they come out of it and you see they lose to good
00:43teams who are injured like the daughters or they lose to crappy teams like colorado so i think it's
00:48the next series that matters more all that to say where they stand right now i still think they
00:53should be buying and i still think that they will buy because if you look at them statistically
00:58they're still a top 10 team in every major category that you want to look at be it they're
01:03pitching era whip ops even their top five in batting average and i know some of that is
01:09goosed a little bit by how strong they had in those weeks leading up to the all-star break
01:14but you don't punish someone for performing really well with almost a skeleton crew and then when
01:21they come out of it and it looks like they need some help with somebody like a reliever or with
01:25another starting pitcher or with a right-handed hitter you don't punish them for needing something
01:31more you don't say like well we expected you to stretch this out the entire season with what you
01:35have i think if anything it's just this shows that they need to just invest a little bit more and they
01:41have the room to do it it's it's a really fair way of looking at it because if they just had another
01:47bullpen arm do they win some of these games over the weekend or if you have a guy who can i don't
01:53know hit left-handed pitching which this team obviously doesn't have james paxton who's been
01:58just horrendously bad this year shut them down hasn't last night yes he has james paxton yes
02:04james paxton seven and two of the four three era what are you talking about yeah is er is a higher
02:08than that and b he gets a ton of run support they had this all broadcast last night he hasn't been
02:11good at all at all he hasn't been yes james paxton i just gave you his number they're not that bad
02:16yeah well i'm telling you uh this is after last night arcand he's got a four three something he's
02:20in the mid-fours that's not good at all he's 443 after last night so to me i i don't think he's
02:25been very good if you want to quibble about it i guess we can we don't have to i just i was
02:28surprised to hear you say that i just he hasn't been good and he wasn't very good last year for
02:31the red sox by the way and so when i look at him shutting them down that's another red flag that's
02:36not an elite left-handed pitcher like he's not only i agree he's just a bum and he shut you down
02:41and so if you had a right-handed bat that could comp or compete against that great never mind
02:47tay oscar hernandez we played this clip a bunch late last week to rob bradford on the baseball
02:51isn't boring podcast that all he had to do was give him another year and he'd be on your team
02:56so instead of hitting the go-ahead run home run yesterday for the dodgers now he'd be on your
03:01team so a little bit more investment at the trade deadline or the offseason you'd be in a different
03:04spot you can look at it and say well if we spent here or added there we could compete with arguably
03:10the best team in baseball but i have that yankee series now circled and mega you said colorado
03:15they better win two out of three against the rockies probably a sweep the rockies are terrible
03:20so you can't be dropping those games if you do it's full-on panic mode that yankee series i feel
03:26like is going to be a big one it should not be i want them buying either way i'm with mega on this
03:31but i feel like i know how ownership works and they're going to look at these stupid uh uh
03:37projected standings playoff odds they took a massive dip after losing three against the
03:42dodgers they were up over 50 percent at the all-star break they're under 40 percent now in
03:46the high 30s if you drop two out of three against the yankees or heaven forbid you're swept against
03:50the yankees those playoff percentages drop and they're playing like garbage going into the
03:55deadline i could see them sitting on their hands and doing nothing so i would add this weekend did
04:00not change my opinion what it did do is make me nervous that all the momentum last week and you
04:06were here for part of it arcane the momentum that they're gonna buy uh bradfoe tamazi breslau
04:13jim boden cora a lot of people saying yeah yeah no they're gonna buy they're gonna make additions
04:18i wonder if this undercuts that and that scares me yeah i mean it's a scary proposition my answer
04:23to this was no i think that they should continue to buy but i do have a different outlook on it
04:28don't want the shopping list is a little bit bigger now you know like it used to just be
04:32starting pitching right-handed bat and we debated what do you need more one or the other you have
04:36to add leading inning reliever to that too and i think if this team is still deciding whether or
04:40not they want to invest based on how the rocky series and the yankee series these other series
04:45in the next couple of weeks ago i feel like that part of the battle may already be lost like you
04:49should be right now not deciding if you want to invest you should be targeting guys you should
04:53be making offers you shouldn't be teetering on whether or not this team is worth investing in
04:57they've proven already that they are i don't think there's any debate about that anymore
05:01and they may need help right now i mean this is the tight it's a fluid situation you know
05:05the dodgers had a ton of injuries i know they've been able to uh withstand that again
05:10his hearing is my hearing is i wish it was but uh the red socks are not i mean they're not they're
05:14not stacked like that when they're when they're in uh injury problems and they have injury problems
05:19in their bullpen right now at the back end with slayton and martin i think you can rearrange some
05:23of the guys in your pen right now and maybe take care of that but you have to have the bodies you
05:27have to have the arms you need a late inning reliever you need a starting pitcher you need
05:31a right-handed power bat and you need them yesterday all right it's not about wait till
05:35august 34 whatever you need them now so bullpen arms top of your list uh no i wouldn't say it is
05:40i'm still right-handed power bat number one then starting pitching then late inning reliever but
05:44it's it's rocketing up the list right now what's at the top of your list mega uh starting pitcher
05:48but that's been that's been where i've been for pretty much the entire season so some of it might
05:53just me being like incredibly stubborn but i also think when people look at this and they go okay
06:00well they're not going to trade prospects i understand those big three prospects prospects
06:05they're not going to touch and you're not asking them to but they do have room against the luxury
06:10tax line like they have something like 18 million last i checked this morning that they can go out
06:14and expend on this so it's you can get a starting pitcher and you can maybe get a decent hitter for
06:21that like for this year and you can decide whether you want to have somebody with more years tacked
06:26on to that or just a rental but this idea that they're like because of the john henry way of
06:31doing things which is not wanting to go into the luxury tax you still have a lot of room to go out
06:37and get at least two pieces before you're even there so i feel like that that just comes down to
06:43it's not even something about oh well he hates spending on the luxury tax which is like what
06:48people talk about when they talk about possibly buying the celtics it's like no that would come
06:53down to you just want a certain threshold of you want to dance any further than around 200 million
06:58and that's completely ridiculous if you're going to own a club like the boston red socks