Jones & Keefe: Lou Merloni on what happened to the Red Sox

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00:00I know talent is obviously a major factor in this, but how much of these bad August, bad September's, bad second halves

00:07Do you put on Alex Cora that seems to be sort of a trend with his teams recently where they're kind of in it right

00:13On the outside of it at the trade deadline all-star break and then things kind of fall apart for him

00:19Yeah, I think that's something that kind of eats at him. He's trying to figure it out. I mean he is the manager

00:24He's responsible for it. I

00:26Still look at these teams collapsing for different reasons, you know, I think this year is about youth

00:31I mean, you know, I don't know how many I mean

00:35How many established players do they have big leaguers in their lineup each and every night other than Devers who has one shoulder right now?

00:42I mean O'Neill, I guess he's been injury prone

00:44Everybody else are rookies or second-year players who are finding out how six months of playing baseball

00:50Difficult that can be and other than Jansen and Martin. Is there anybody out there?

00:54That's got more than a year or two in the big leagues

00:56you're relying all year long, you know on Bernardino and Winkowski or or Boozer or

01:02Slayton who's a rookie and Weisert like I just think youth

01:06Caught up to these guys and they're figuring out what a big league season is this year