Craig Breslow on trade deadline "We have to take them seriously"

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.