Devers at 1st?? #MLB What will Breslow/Cora and the #Redsox do, with the unfortunate news that Casas is done for season. Could/should Anthony or Mayer be called up?
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00:00Craig Breslow spoke to the media and was asked about what the Sox will do at first base.
00:06Here was Craig Breslow's back and forth with the media.
00:09Yeah, so I mean, I think in the short term, obviously, we brought Toro up.
00:13He's been playing well in Worcester and also has some experience in the big leagues at first base.
00:17And then, you know, the conversations about longer term solutions are ongoing.
00:21We'll figure out something. We've got no choice.
00:24And I think, you know, this is a pretty resilient group.
00:27Would you have Devers take round balls at first base?
00:31I think we're still trying to figure out what the long term solution looks like.
00:35You know, at this point, still pretty focused on just making sure that Tristan is getting everything that he needs and we're taking care of him.
00:40How tricky is that? Like, you know, he's seemingly just gotten to a place where the routine is, you know, where it seems like he's found this routine as a DH.
00:48How delicate is it to try to, like, to think about the possibility of reconfiguring it or avoiding it?
00:55Yeah, you always want to be sensitive to all of those things.
01:00You know, right now, not in a place to speak to that.
01:03But obviously, we'll have conversations internally and we'll do the best we can to find the short term solution.
01:10And then also one that we feel like can hold up over the longer term.
01:13Let me ask the Red Sox savant in the room what he would do.
01:17What would you do in this case, Curtis?
01:19I would put Roman Anthony at first base.
01:22And I know that that's not what the baseball people want you to do.
01:25Right. Hasn't really played there.
01:26Right. I don't care.
01:28He's the number one prospect in Major League Baseball.
01:31Well, get him at bats every day.
01:34I don't, first of all, even if the worst case scenario occurs and he just gets the yips and can't catch the ball, fans are not going to be all over him.
01:42They know the situation.
01:44They know it's not his choosing.
01:46Well, he's going to be mashing anyway.
01:47Right.
01:48Who cares?
01:48So I just, I don't want, I don't know what the, there's, I thought the lack of urgency was over with.
01:56In other words, I thought this was a season they were going to be all in.
01:59Yeah.
02:00And their approach to this has just been frustrating to me.
02:02So you would not ask Devers, if it like politely, if he would like to play every day.
02:08I trust Alex Cora and what he knows of the dynamic that exists today in the locker room, that there's a reason he's saying to Breslow, we are not moving Devers there.
02:17Right.