Is Devers (in field) "ready to go if needed"? Red Sox CBO Craig Breslow joins!

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Is Devers (in field) "ready to go if needed"? Red Sox CBO Craig Breslow joins!  Breslow: "Right now the right thing is for him to continue to anchor the lineup"

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00:00So Sam Kennedy said yesterday that Raphael Devers and his glove are ready to go if needed.

00:08Is that kind of the current situation with Raffi?

00:15Yeah, I saw Sam make those comments, and I obviously can't speak for Sam.

00:21I don't know that we should take it precisely at its word, I think.

00:26You know, what Sam was probably getting at is there's been a lot of attention to, you know,

00:35interaction between Raffi and the median Raffi and me.

00:39But at the end of the day, when push comes to shove, Raffi is usually in the right place at the right time

00:44and finding a way to help the team.

00:45Right now it's in the middle of the lineup, and, you know, if there continues to be a need somewhere else,

00:51then we'll explore that in due time.

00:53Okay, so what you're saying is Sam doesn't know what he's talking about.

00:58I did not say that.

01:02So if you were to go to him and say, hey, Raffi, we need you tonight over on first base,

01:07then you feel like he would be available and ready to go.

01:13I do not say that either.

01:15What I am saying is these things tend to blow up, then they tend to blow over.

01:23And, you know, I think we saw it coming out of spring training.

01:28You know, Raffi is incredibly competitive, and he's also emotional,

01:32but he cares deeply about the team and deeply about winning.

01:35And he ends up, you know, doing the right thing.

01:38And that's all we can ask.

01:39And right now the right thing is for him to continue to anchor the lineup and help us put runs on the board.

01:45Any update timeline-wise on Alex Bregman?

01:50I don't think it would be fair to say, hey, this is when we expect him to be back.

01:55But it does seem as though he's making real progress.

02:00And I think that there is a chance that he'd be able to cut the timeline down from what was initially anticipated,

02:07exactly what that looks like.

02:08I don't know.

02:08But he seems to be really, really excited about the progress that he's making.

02:12And this is similar to a quad injury that he had a few years ago in Houston.

02:16And he feels like he's, you know, ahead of the timeline relative to that return.

02:21All right.

02:22Well, Yankees in town this weekend and Garrett Crochet tomorrow night.

02:28And so it should be really interesting.

02:31And many of us have found ourselves back in.

02:34So we appreciate you taking the time.

02:36And we will talk to you again soon.

02:39For sure.

02:40And hopefully we can keep you in.

02:42Keep me in.

02:43All right.

02:43That is Craig Reslow, the chief baseball officer of the Boston Red Sox.

02:47All right.

02:47Get out there early.

02:49Throw some innings.

02:50So when you do go on the mound for the first inning, you feel like you've already thrown one or two innings before.

02:56Because they struggle in the first inning, man.

02:58It's crazy.

02:59I mean, their combined ERA in the first inning is currently, as it sits, would be a Major League Baseball record.

03:10It's 12-plus.

03:14Any other nuggets that you got out of that?

03:17That Devers is probably never going to play.

03:20He wishes that Sam Kennedy would not talk about the baseball operational things.

03:27And you won't see Devers in the field anytime soon.

03:30I know.

03:31Nope.

03:32They are going to leave him alone.

03:34Yeah.

03:34That is a hot stove over there.

03:36Leave it alone.

03:36Don't put our hands on it.

03:38Is there a chance we could see him in the future?

03:40Uh, I'm not saying that.

03:42Maybe.

03:42We're not going to say anything about it.

03:44All right.

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