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00:00Are you ready to get into Craig Breslow's track record game?
00:04Yeah, I don't see why not.
00:04You can dig in there.
00:06It's a good day to do it.
00:06That's your guy.
00:07That's my guy.
00:08You're the one guy defending Craig Breslow in the whole city.
00:11I didn't realize that's where all this was heading.
00:13I don't think Craig Breslow is as confident in himself as you are in him.
00:16I turned into the Craig Breslow guy.
00:18That kind of happened overnight.
00:19But it's okay.
00:20I was the Dombrowski guy for a long time.
00:22It wasn't popular.
00:23But it'll work out for you sometimes.
00:26Yeah, it'll look good in the long run.
00:29But they're stacking wins now.
00:31Just stacking.
00:32Winning series.
00:33That's all they're doing.
00:33A couple of wins without Rafi Devers.
00:35I didn't check.
00:36Did the Giants win last night?
00:38I didn't check.
00:38They must have won with Rafi Devers, right?
00:40No, Jones.
00:41They lost.
00:41Oh, they lost again.
00:42They're 0-2 with Rafael Devers.
00:43And he didn't have any hits.
00:44No.
00:45Oh, interesting.
00:45Okay.
00:46Oh, that's good.
00:47So the Red Sox are in playoff position.
00:49They won two out of three without Devers.
00:50I was told they'd never win again without Devers.
00:53But two out of three without him.
00:55And the Giants haven't won yet with him.
00:57In that Guardians game?
00:58Oh.
00:59Emmanuel Class A.
01:01That's right.
01:02I got his jersey.
01:03I was like Greg Weiser.
01:04He was wearing an Emmanuel Class A jersey.
01:05Wrong game.
01:06Wrong game.
01:07Shut him down.
01:08Devers 0-3.
01:09Happy Juneteenth, by the way.
01:10I thought there was a real risk you weren't going to be here on this.
01:13There was a chance.
01:15Thankfully, my mom was able to drive down and watch both girls who are both off today.
01:18Yeah, right.
01:19They are both recognizing the day.
01:20So they are off.
01:21No school today.
01:22Lucas is off today.
01:23How do you like this twist?
01:24A little Cece Beans finishes school tomorrow.
01:27Sick brag, bro.
01:29Half day.
01:30Oh, is it tomorrow or is it Monday?
01:32No, no.
01:32Half day tomorrow.
01:33Boston Public has a half day tomorrow, half day Monday.
01:36Oh, that's even crazier.
01:38So she had a full day yesterday.
01:40Last full day was yesterday.
01:41Then today is a holiday.
01:43So she's off today.
01:44And then she goes back tomorrow and I think it leaves before lunch.
01:47Doesn't make a lot of sense.
01:48Doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.
01:49Pretty strong, though.
01:50Maybe end it where the holiday hit.
01:52Yeah, there's got to be a way to time that out.
01:53You would think.
01:54Yeah.
01:54No, we need those two extra hours to get them in here.
01:57I don't know if any truancy officers are listening, but I don't think Lucas is going
01:59to be there on Monday.
02:00Oh, he's not making it?
02:01I don't think so.
02:02Come on.
02:03Today, and I don't think this is, or know if this is in the true spirit of Juneteenth, but
02:07Lucas and Kat and some friends are all at the Oakley Country Club.
02:11They're celebrating at the pool today.
02:12Oh, they are taking a little dip.
02:14Oh, it's the hottest blazes out there.
02:15So, you know, I think certainly out there celebrating the holiday.
02:19Thanks for tuning in today.
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02:39We'll get into Breslow in a moment, but real quick.
02:41And this is part and parcel of the Breslow discussion and how good of a GM he is and
02:46what's his actual track record.
02:47And we'll discuss it with you guys on the phones.
02:51You go get crochet for games like yesterday.
02:53Yeah, you needed that.
02:54You needed the series without Devers.
02:57Devers, if anybody in the clubhouse, and I think most of them are ready to move on without
03:02Rafi Devers.
03:03That's certainly what it sounds like publicly.
03:05I haven't heard anything off the record, you know, through back channels with all the
03:09backstabbing that Cora's doing to Craig Breslow.
03:12I haven't heard anything about, you know, the clubhouse missing off the record.
03:16The clubhouse really missing Devers or anything like that.
03:18So I don't think they miss him, but I don't think they do at all.
03:21There might be an element of, can we win games?
03:24How good are we going to be without Rafi Devers?
03:27This is another playoff team-ish that we're going against, like in the wild card mix in
03:31the Seattle Mariners.
03:32And we have our ace on the hill.
03:34And we got to win the series to carry momentum into the series against Devers starting tomorrow
03:39night on Friday in San Francisco.
03:41And so you needed a big start out of crochet.
03:44I'm not sure he was like completely on his A game, wild pitches and things like that.
03:48Probably more hit than normal, but he only allowed the one run and he continues to be
03:53a dominant, dominant force.
03:55And that's a game I feel like they really needed yesterday in the post-Rafi Devers era.
04:00Yeah, because they're going to need to figure out this offense.
04:02They scored five runs in the series.
04:04You're not going to win a lot of series scoring five runs.
04:07No, I'm like five hits.
04:08Yeah, well, they had like five.
04:09They had three runs yesterday, three hits.
04:12Yeah.
04:13Two homers.
04:13Our guy Meyer, though.
04:14Our guy Connor Wong getting the sink.
04:16No RBI.
04:17No, that's not happening.
04:18But he did get a hit.
04:18But Meyer leaving the yard.
04:19I mean, Meyer, it's going to be Meyer, Anthony, Duran, Story.
04:25Like these are going to be the guys that are going to have to carry the offense until Bregman
04:28gets back.
04:29And is that going to be enough?
04:31And you're right.
04:33That's why you have Garrett Crochet.
04:34Garrett Crochet is going to have to have more games like this than not.
04:37And, you know, that game against the Yankees, I know he didn't get the win, but that was
04:41another one.
04:42They didn't score a lot of runs, but he was fantastic in it because Giolito and Buehler
04:48and Baio and Dobbins, you know, four fifths of your rotation.
04:52You can't count on for that.
04:54And they've shown that they can do it here and there, right?
04:56Giolito's had a couple of really good games.
04:58He's also had a couple of really bad games.
05:00And, you know, you're not going to go into those ones and say, oh, you're going to beat
05:04the Giants.
05:05You know, you're going to take two out of three against the Giants by scoring four runs,
05:09five runs.
05:10Probably not because Garrett Crochet is not pitching in that series.
05:13You know, you used him in this one.
05:14So they're going to have to figure out a way to score more runs.
05:17But no, he lived up to the hype.
05:19Also, you got to give Cora credit yesterday, too, for the way he did use the bullpen.
05:23Yeah, smart.
05:24It's a good move.
05:24It was smart because usually closers are sort of dead set and they're like, let me pitch
05:28the ninth.
05:28Let me get my save and let me get out of there.
05:31And you're like, well, the eighth inning, Big Dumper's coming up.
05:34We probably should use Chapman against Big Dumper, which he did.
05:38So he gets out of the eighth.
05:39Also credit to Chapman, right?
05:41Some closers would get real pissy about that.
05:43Some closers would pitch a real fit.
05:45Yeah, they would.
05:45I think even the Red Sox have probably had ones like that.
05:47You think Kelly Jansen wanted to do that?
05:49Nope.
05:49No chance.
05:50He's trying to climb up the save leaderboard.
05:52He's not necessarily trying to win games for your team.
05:55So Chapman does that.
05:56Weissert goes out there and he's been pitching really well.
05:59So, yeah, that was a good, another low scoring one, but another good team win for the Red
06:03Sox.
06:03Well, and look, the pitching needs to be better than it was for months.
06:07It has been for the last couple of weeks.
06:08You know, Walker, P. Euler aside.
06:11Oh, boy.
06:11And so Crochet crushed it yesterday.
06:13You're going to need that.
06:14Yeah.
06:14You're going to need, well, A, Bregman back whenever he comes back to a lesser degree
06:19of Bregman.
06:19I mean, desperately need Bregman back.
06:20Getting some bats back is going to be important and you need the kids to hit.
06:23I'm not telling you Meyer crushed it yesterday.
06:26He crushed one.
06:27He crushed one.
06:28He crushed one.
06:28But I'm saying, like, it's not like he lit it up.
06:30He had a home run.
06:31He was one for three.
06:32He's hitting 220.
06:33Drew a good walk.
06:33Roman Anthony is hitting 74 now.
06:36That's 074, not 740.
06:38Drew another good walk.
06:39He drew a good eye at the plate by those fellas.
06:41Christian Campbell got taken out of the game after he struck out for the second time and
06:45smashed his helmet yesterday.
06:47Yeah.
06:47He's down to 223.
06:48At what point?
06:49Those kids need to hit.
06:50At what point can we say Campbell's not very good?
06:52How long does it take?
06:53I'm not there yet.
06:54I'm not there yet.
06:55It's not fair.
06:55It's not fair.
06:56That he's not very good or he needs to go down to Worcester.
06:58Those to me are two different things.
07:00Yeah.
07:01Like, he might just not be the best.
07:02Okay.
07:02Like, he might not be.
07:03I personally need more time for that.
07:05But the second he signed his extension, I know you were questioning that.
07:08Because to be fair, all these prospect rankings get tossed out there and we look at, I look
07:12at them, you look at them and you're like, all right, top 100, you know, prospects in
07:16baseball.
07:16I even trust, you know, the Sox prospect guys just to go through the Red Sox system and rank
07:22their guys one through 21 through 60, actually, I think on their website.
07:26That's all great.
07:26But like, how many of those guys have we seen?
07:27Right?
07:28Not many, if any, you know, and then you see him play and now you're like, okay, I sort
07:33of see what they were describing.
07:34I sort of see what they were doing.
07:35And then you're like, I could see this guy.
07:37I could see him eventually being really good.
07:40Like, Robin Anthony's hitting 074.
07:42But I don't know.
07:43You look at some of his swings and you're like, that guy's going to be pretty good.
07:46You love him in the field.
07:47No, maybe not.
07:48Marcelo Meyer, same thing.
07:49Like, Marcelo Meyer.
07:50I like him.
07:51He's smooth in the field.
07:52His swing is pretty sick.
07:54And then you're like, you see Christian Campbell.
07:55You watch Campbell and you're kind of like, what was the hype all about?
07:57Yeah.
07:57Yeah, I get that.
07:58Okay.
07:58Okay.
07:58So that's right.
07:59I'm not running away from him yet.
08:01My question more is, like, do you have a bad season?
08:05And you're like, all right, get him next to your bud.
08:07Or is it like, yeah, I don't know.
08:09Because we also don't even know what position he plays.
08:11Like, what's his best thing?
08:13It's supposed to be the stick.
08:14Got it.
08:14So, like, the average, I think.
08:16I don't really even think he's a power guy.
08:18223.
08:19He's hitting 223 right now.
08:21That's higher than Meyer and Anthony.
08:22That's true.
08:23But Meyer's got more pop.
08:24Meyer might be there.
08:25Close.
08:26Meyer's, I believe I just said 220.
08:28Yeah, Meyer's 220.
08:29Campbell's 223.
08:29223.
08:30Yeah.
08:30Anthony 074.
08:32I like to call it 74.
08:33It's only the 70s count.
08:36Anthony's hitting 74.
08:37I mean, look, love the family.
08:39Happy he's here.
08:40I'm a little suspect about that 74.
08:42That's going to need to start rising.
08:44617-779-7937.
08:47Your thoughts on the state of the Red Sox.
08:49We'll get into Craig Breslow and the Red Sox putting out a statement explaining their interview practices.
08:55Oh, yeah.
08:55They didn't care for that.
08:56That's pretty good.
08:57We'll also get into another near trade the Red Sox made that John Henry got in the way of.
09:02The Lakers sail.
09:04We'll also talk to Rob Bradford at 1130.
09:06We'll go on the clock at high noon.
09:08What the Red Sox do now without Raphael Devers and a key for madness at 1245.
09:13Jam-packed, as always, here on Jones and Keith.
09:15But I've been defending the Breslow track record.
09:18You have.
09:19Like, I don't think he's high in bloom.
09:22People talk about...
09:23Greater than high in bloom.
09:24Good start.
09:25Good start.
09:26But people think he's the same.
09:27And I don't.
09:28I think he's...
09:28He sounds the same.
09:29They both went to Yale.
09:31He doesn't leave you with a lot of confidence when you hear him.
09:34Yeah, what do you call him again?
09:34Something with a curveball?
09:35No, high in bloom with a curveball.
09:36High in bloom with a curveball.
09:37Yeah.
09:38I don't think he's that.
09:39I think he's already shown more of a propensity to trade top prospects and part with them.
09:43I think he's already made better moves.
09:44Now, if you want to tell me he's not Dombrowski or not even a great GM, fine.
09:47But I don't think it's the high in bloom experience all over again.
09:51These guys are tough to grade overall just because you know that John Henry is going to tell him what to do when it comes to the big money guys.
09:59As far as both signing them and trading them or whatever else.
10:03I think his two worst deals that we're going to see, if you even think Devers is a bad deal, I don't love the return, but I don't think it's a terrible deal by itself because you needed to get Devers off the team.
10:12I think you'll see the two worst deals, John Henry played a big role in them.
10:16Never mind the deals that he wasn't allowed to do because John Henry got in the way.
10:19But let's start with this.
10:20A little timeline for Craig Breslow.
10:22I like that.
10:23I like a timeline.
10:24And we'll just go, was it a good move or a bad move?
10:26Binary, Keefe.
10:27No in-between.
10:27Are we going to keep track of these?
10:29I'll track them.
10:29Okay, you'll track them.
10:30Okay, Craig Breslow, hired as Chief Baseball Officer of the Boston Red Sox October 24th of 2023.
10:36Bad move.
10:37So the timeline starts there.
10:38That one doesn't count.
10:40How about trading away Alex Verdugo and getting Greg Weissert, saved yesterday, and Richard Fitz in a deal?
10:47Good move.
10:47I think that's a good move.
10:48Verdugo's a bum, and Weissert's been actually pretty good.
10:50I don't know about Fitz, but I think Weissert's been solid.
10:53I would say that was a good move.
10:54And you don't want Verdugo, so that's a good move.
10:56The next day, acquire Justin Slayton.
10:58Good.
10:58Okay.
10:59How about his Tyler O'Neal trade?
11:02Good.
11:03Okay.
11:03Tyler O'Neal, I mean, was good for what he did.
11:06He came in here, socked a bunch of dingers, didn't he?
11:07I think we're going to get our first.
11:08Did a lot of baseball isn't boring interviews.
11:10I think we're going to get our first bad one.
11:11Okay.
11:13Chris Sale for Von Grissom.
11:15So bad.
11:15I'm with you on, I think it's revisionist history to be like, oh, Chris Sale was awesome,
11:19and he would have won the Cy Young here.
11:21It's like, no, he was broken down.
11:22It wasn't going to work here.
11:23However, you were told to trade Sale.
11:26You needed to get back a player that could play at the major league level at some point.
11:31Yeah.
11:31And you did not.
11:32So therefore, bad trade.
11:34Right.
11:34A guy who can't even make it on the ball club.
11:37They're playing David Hamilton like every night, and Von Grissom's just chilling in the minors.
11:41Yeah, so Henry twisted his arm on trading him, and I'm happy they traded Chris Sale.
11:44You've got to do better than Von Grissom.
11:45If we're going just good, bad, we're not doing any nuance to any of these, then that's a bad deal.
11:48Bad deal.
11:49Yep.
11:50How about January 3rd, 2024, he signed Lucas Giolito.
11:54One year plus an option.
11:55Probably bad.
11:55I don't like that one either.
11:57Probably bad.
11:58I know he's pitched better.
11:58He had a good, he pitched a gem, but he also missed a season.
12:01Yeah, I'd call that a bad move.
12:04Okay.
12:05January 31st, claim Romy Gonzalez.
12:07Oh, man.
12:08That's a nice little move.
12:09What do you mean?
12:10Oh, man.
12:10You're just talking about crushing lefties the other way.
12:13Does smoke lefties, doesn't he?
12:14Yeah.
12:14It's a good little move.
12:15Good luck being a lefty against Romy Gonzalez.
12:17All right, good move.
12:18All right, fine.
12:18Sign Liam Hendricks, two-year deal.
12:20February 20th.
12:21Bad move.
12:21Terrible move.
12:22Yep.
12:22How about he extended Sedan Rafaela April 10th for eight years.
12:27Bad move.
12:27Didn't need to do it.
12:28I don't like it either.
12:30You didn't need to extend him.
12:31We talked to Bradford, who we'll talk to today at 1130, but we talked to him, I think,
12:35a couple weeks ago about some of these moves, some of these, the guys they did sign
12:38extensions to, the guys they didn't.
12:39And that's one where you say, what was the rush?
12:42Why did you need to sign Rafaela?
12:43He's fine, but he didn't need an eight-year extension.
12:46All right, here's a flurry of deadline activity last year.
12:49You can love these in one, but let's take them one by one.
12:51Acquired James Paxton.
12:52Bad move.
12:53Bad move.
12:54Acquired Danny Jansen.
12:55Bad move.
12:56I would agree.
12:56Bad move.
12:57Acquired.
12:57This is a two-parter.
12:58Okay.
12:59Yeah.
12:59Acquired Quinn Priester for Nick York.
13:01So, actually a good move.
13:03That one is a good move.
13:04See, I'm nothing but fair.
13:05That one is a good move.
13:06It is.
13:07We're going to get to the other half of it.
13:08That cancels it out.
13:10He acquired Luis Garcia.
13:12Real bad move.
13:13He acquired Lucas Sims.
13:15Blows.
13:16These guys were just disasters.
13:18They were so bad.
13:20Okay, those were his in-season moves.
13:21By the way, that's 0 for the deadline.
13:220 for that.
13:23Ah, Quinn Priester, buddy.
13:24He went away and subtracted that.
13:26No, but what happened was you only brought in four major leaguers, one minor leaguer,
13:30and the only one who was any good was the minor leaguer who didn't help your team after the deadline.
13:33Look, I can't blame any of the deadline on John Henry.
13:36That's all him.
13:36That's bad.
13:37That's pretty bad.
13:37It's a rough deadline.
13:38Okay.
13:39You know, it was his first deadline.
13:40Yep.
13:41They signed Justin Wilson on November 14th.
13:45Okay, fine.
13:46Good.
13:47It's not a bad move.
13:48No, it's not a bad move.
13:48Right.
13:48I was going to say, it's binary, good or bad.
13:51That's good.
13:52This one, if you want to accuse me of reaching, go for it.
13:54They DFA'd two veterans off the 40-man roster.
13:57They protected Hunter Dobbins and Joss Nixon Garcia, who's now one of their top prospects.
14:01The password?
14:01Putting him on the 40-man roster.
14:03The password?
14:03It's a good move.
14:04All right, fine.
14:04That's, I mean, that is slimy, but fine.
14:06He's getting like 500 at AAA.
14:08I know, but like, okay, fine.
14:10Good move.
14:10He protected Hunter Dobbins from the Rule 5 draft.
14:14From his father.
14:14Hey, Hunter, the Red Sox didn't protect you in the Rule 5 draft.
14:20They signed a role to Chapman December 10th.
14:23Great move.
14:24We hated it.
14:25We hated it at the time.
14:25Great move.
14:26Great move.
14:27Acquired Garrett Crochet.
14:29Oh, great move.
14:29On the same day, acquired Carlos Narvaez.
14:32Separate deal.
14:33An incredible move.
14:34The best move of the bunch.
14:35Maybe the best of the moves.
14:37Okay, I don't like these next two.
14:39Signed Patrick Sandoval.
14:40Who?
14:41I know who he is.
14:42He's another one of these injured pitchers that's going to sit.
14:45He signed Walker Bueller.
14:47Bad.
14:48Bad move.
14:48Some call him, and they're trying to make it happen.
14:50Walker P. Euler.
14:51Nobody else has called him that, though.
14:53January 28th, 2025, signed Abraham Toro.
14:55Great move.
14:57The Bull?
14:57Well, it sounded like there was some sarcasm.
14:59No, no, no.
14:59He's cooled, but that was a pretty good move.
15:01No, it was.
15:02It was.
15:02He's been way better than expected.
15:04In fact, he made first base, like, somewhat productive.
15:07We can debate how much credit he personally deserves for this,
15:10but they signed Alex Bregman to a three-year deal.
15:12Yeah, that's good.
15:13They signed Garrett Crochet to an extension.
15:16That's a good move, too.
15:17They signed Christian Campbell to an extension on April 2nd.
15:21I'm going to call that one a good move right now.
15:25Okay.
15:26Because I still believe in Campbell longer term.
15:28I guess you're right.
15:29But that one's, if you want, if there is anyone with a gray area,
15:32this and the Devers trade are it.
15:33We don't know the results.
15:34You do know my theory, though.
15:35I do.
15:36Young guns.
15:37You questioned it right away.
15:38Signing deals early.
15:39I'm the only one who feels this way.
15:40Nobody else.
15:41Bradford was like, yeah, I get your point, but no.
15:43Nobody else really subscribes to this.
15:45But I think if you look back at the history of baseball,
15:47guys that sign early, and I'm not talking about with, like,
15:49a year left on their deal, like bets with the Dodgers or something like that,
15:52like established guys, they get $300 million.
15:55But guys that sign early, like early, early.
15:59Like, I don't think Marcelo Meyer's doing that.
16:01I don't think Roman Anthony's doing that.
16:02I think they know if they wait a few more years,
16:04there's going to be a much bigger payday.
16:06So, anyway, I have my antenna up on that.
16:08But so, if you want to say good move, because it is at least one of the fears
16:12is we just saw this team move on from bets,
16:15now literally move on from Devers, like two years into his huge deal.
16:19Bogart's going to finish his career somewhere else.
16:21One of the jokes is, all right, you have these good minor leaguers,
16:24or you have these good prospects.
16:25Are they going to stay?
16:25So, you did lock them up.
16:27So, ultimately, that's fine.
16:28Okay, we gave him a thumbs up for acquiring Quinn Priester.
16:30How about on April 7th, he traded him away for something called
16:33Yoferi Rodriguez.
16:34Yeah, that's bad.
16:35And Priester's actually pitched pretty well with the Brewers.
16:38Yes.
16:38Yes.
16:38That's what I'm saying.
16:39That's why it's a bad.
16:40If Priester was just a nobody, they'd be nothing.
16:42No, Priester's probably, I mean, we can look at the numbers.
16:44He's probably been better than Walker Buehler.
16:47No question, he's been better than Walker Buehler.
16:48Okay, so you just keep, yeah, okay.
16:51He doesn't get, I'm not going to tally these,
16:53but just for the timeline, they promoted Meyer on May 24th.
16:56They promoted Roman Anthony on 6-9.
16:59Because you could really argue both sides to that.
17:01You could say, well, what took you so long?
17:02They could be bad moves, but yeah.
17:04By the way, good suggestion for a daily question of the day.
17:08We can get to this in the grab bag later on.
17:10Guys, I think it's time.
17:11Yes, no question of the day.
17:12Is Roman Anthony hitting above the Mendoza line?
17:14We might be here a while.
17:15Mendoza line?
17:15The Mendoza line?
17:16Dude, he can't even see the Mendoza line.
17:18Christian Campbell's still in the major leagues.
17:21That's actually pretty good.
17:22These are good ones.
17:22That's a mean one, Nick.
17:24And then the last one, traded Rafael Devers.
17:27I don't even know if we know how to grade that one yet.
17:29So I guess-
17:29How would you grade it?
17:30I'll say bad in the vein of Chris Sale was bad.
17:33Let's do it.
17:33I don't-
17:34You and I are two of the few that are like, all right, see you later, Devers.
17:38But the return's bad.
17:39The return right now is two minor leaguers who we may never see, a prospect who's, I mean,
17:45I guess not even really a prospect anymore in Harrison, and then Jordan Hicks, who is
17:50terrible.
17:51And the Giants were like, maybe he's a starter, maybe he's a reliever.
17:54I know Breslau said he's a high-end reliever.
17:56I don't even think he really helps your relievers right now.
17:58We said yesterday, even like a good Jordan Hicks is like your fifth guy in the pen.
18:03It's not like you upgraded a guy that's better than, you know, Weiser.
18:07Certainly not better than Chapman.
18:08Like, I don't even know how he fits in.
18:09So I would say bad move.
18:11Okay.
18:11Tally them all up.
18:1314 out of 26.
18:14Thumbs up on the moves.
18:16Really?
18:16So just barely over half.
18:18Just slightly above 500.
18:20Like the team.
18:21Here's a good one that I didn't recall.
18:24They didn't offer a qualifying offer to Pavetta, who's been really good.
18:28Oh, yeah.
18:28Although we saw Pavetta here.
18:30Something tells me he wouldn't have done that here.
18:31But that's at least a fair one to maybe put on the list.
18:33Twitch chat is also saying we didn't mention Bregman.
18:35We did.
18:36Yeah, we did.
18:36Bregman was absolutely on there.
18:38Yeah, we're going in order.
18:39So 14 out of 26.
18:40The idea that the guys made a bunch of bumbling moves, I don't really agree with.
18:44And I think you look at it.
18:45The deadline last year was really bad.
18:47And the sale return was really bad.
18:50Yeah.
18:50I think all the moves he made this offseason, just about, and we'll see how the Devers one
18:55progresses.
18:55I think they've all been pretty good.
18:57He's been on a little bit of a heater is what I would acknowledge.
18:59Yeah, yeah.
19:00And I think obviously not all these are the same, too, right?
19:04So if you're like, all right, 14 up, 12 down.
19:06Right.
19:07But do you wait?
19:07But a couple of the minor wins are Romy Gonzalez and things like this.
19:10But also like acquiring Crochet and then not dealing with the contract all year and
19:15in the offseason.
19:16Like having him locked up.
19:17And you see him again pitch yesterday.
19:18And you're like, oh, God, you got this guy?
19:19Here's also what I would say.
19:20And we got to track this.
19:21But Dombrowski was great at this.
19:23And Bloom just never traded any prospects.
19:26So it's hard to say.
19:27No.
19:27But Dombrowski was really good at, I'm going to get Chris Sale and the prospects aren't
19:31going to come back to bite me.
19:32Nobody's really come back to bite the Red Sox, to be honest, because we were going
19:35through all these trades a while ago.
19:37And Hanley Ramirez, this is going back years, was a great, great, great, great, great player.
19:41But you got Beckett and Lowell and you won a World Series.
19:44So it almost didn't matter.
19:45But like, Yohan Mankata, Manuel Margot, Michael Kopech, like none of these guys, you're like,
19:51who was the young pitcher they gave up?
19:54Anderson Espinosa.
19:55People were like bullcrap about it.
19:57People were so mad at Dombrowski for that.
19:58Maybe Anthony Rizzo, I guess, for like the Gonzo trade years ago.
20:02So this is going to matter.
20:03If Kyle Teal's a player and Christian Campbell can't hit, well, then maybe they traded the
20:07wrong guy to acquire Garrett Crochet, right?
20:09So let's follow that.
20:11But so far, it seems like he protected the guys we wanted here.
20:15And we'll continue to track that.
20:16But that's the full resume for Craig Breslow.
20:19Let us know if you think we missed anything else.
20:20617-779-7937.
20:24You can jump in there.
20:24Where I think it's going to be really critical for him, and because this is the thing I
20:28criticized Heimblum for the most, was the bad trade deadlines.
20:31And so you have a month and a half.
20:32He was 0 for 1.
20:34Big time 0 for 1.
20:34And it feels like, regardless of whatever their record is, they're going to be the same
20:39spot, give or take.
20:41They're currently tied for the third wildcard spot.
20:43So they're like, what a mess of a season it's been.
20:45They're in playoff contention.
20:47So in the next month and a half, between the Devers trade and the trade deadline, do you
20:51either do nothing?
20:53Do you add James Paxson, Danny Jansen equivalents?
20:57Or do you actually help the team?
20:59And then if they make the playoffs, that'd be a huge, huge checkmark for Breslow.
21:04Well, and hopefully, Craig, I know he's on the West Coast, but on the Odyssey app, maybe.
21:08Oh, he's listening.
21:09Hopefully he's listening when we go on the clock at high noon, and we give you a plan for
21:13what the Red Sox should do now, that Rafael Devers has been traded away.
21:17We'll give you a 60-second plan on how the Red Sox should upgrade.
21:20But yeah, no, the deadline's going to be a big thing for Craig Breslow.
21:23All I'm telling you is you go through the full track record, the full body of work, he's
21:27not as bad as people are making him out to be.
21:28He's not Dombrowski.
21:29He's not Theo.
21:30But he's also not high in bloom, and I don't think he's a total bumbling buffoon with the
21:35baseball transactions.
21:37He's a bit of a bumbling buffoon when it comes to their interviews, their hiring, and interacting
21:43with the media.
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