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00:00You take a look at some of the past couple games for the Red Sox, it hasn't been great this week.
00:052-1-4-1-1-2, multiple games being played in extra innings and still not scoring.
00:11So, Tom, I'm going to ask you first here.
00:13We did Raphael Devers' edition of Panic Meter a few short weeks ago, which, again, was like, you know what?
00:18He's actually playing much better baseball right now.
00:19I'm going to ask you the same thing.
00:21Are we worried about the Boston Red Sox, and what is your panic level here in that equation?
00:26My panic for them overall is still calm.
00:28And Rafi started off the season super slow.
00:32They were on the road.
00:33They come back home, and he's hitting all over the place.
00:35He's back up to 270, 260 average.
00:37So, that's totally fine.
00:39They still have a lot of young talent that still needs to elevate.
00:42I can buy into it and essentially rationalize, A, the weather wasn't amazing.
00:47The players are going to go through their natural variance.
00:50And if the top portion of the lineup with their veterans or their best hitters aren't performing,
00:55just because that's what baseball is on a day-to-day basis,
00:57and those rookies and young players aren't also performing,
01:00and those things happen at the same time,
01:02this is where we're going to get low offensive output.
01:04As the weather gets warmer and we see these players develop,
01:07we see, you know, Devers and Bregman hit their stride,
01:09I think things will be okay.
01:11I'm not worried about it.