Jones & Keefe: Rob Bradford says the Red Sox are "Motivated" at the trade deadline

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00:00I do think that they are more motivated, this trade deadline, than we have seen in years.

00:07That is the one thing that I can't say.

00:09Like, people say, oh, buyers are selling.

00:11No.

00:11Well, when you trade Rafael Devers, when you did, like, you better be buyers.

00:16For sure.

00:17But then you also can't be, two weeks from now, add nothing and be like, wow, the asking

00:21prices were high.

00:22No.

00:22Like, I don't think anybody's going to be like, oh, they were, okay.

00:24The Danny Ainge method.

00:26Yeah, we were in on everybody.

00:27We got nobody.

00:28Not good enough.

00:29Not this year.

00:29Right.

00:29I mean, you look at a guy like, their last sort of trade deadline, where they're like,

00:35oh, my goodness, look at what they did.

00:38Kyle Schwarber, right?

00:39Yeah, 21.

00:40This is the only time they had a winning record in the second half.

00:42But remember, about Kyle Schwarber.

00:43He was hurt.

00:44He was hurt.

00:45Like, they got him on a bargain basement.

00:48And they were going to make him a first baseman.

00:50Right.

00:51Well, that's the other thing, Billy.

00:52Yeah, we'll teach him first.

00:53He was willing to do it.

00:54We'll teach him first.

00:54He's like, oh, think about that guy.

00:56We forget that.

00:58He hadn't even played first.

00:59But first, we'll just take your word for it.

01:00Oh, we'll make him a first baseman.

01:01And then, like, I don't know if you have the clip, like, me talking to Chris Sale, but

01:05Chris Sale is talking about 2018, where they push, he's like, they put the rings on the

01:10table.

01:11But when I came to Boston, they put the rings on the table.

01:14And they said, hey, listen, we want to win more of these, but it's up to you.

01:18And if you do your job, then we'll add.

01:20And sure enough, in 2018, you have Steve Pierce early on, and Nathan Evaldi early on.

01:26But even then, they needed another start.

01:29And you got Nathan Evaldi.

01:30Yeah, right.

01:31Nathan Evaldi.

01:32Who's killing it this year, by the way.

01:33I mean, as much as everyone is screaming and yelling about Joe Ryan, let's remember,

01:37even Dave Dabrowski couldn't get that guy.

01:41So that's the danger.

01:42We had that Dabrowski cut we used to always play, where they're asking him about the

01:46deadline, how he didn't do anything.

01:47He goes, well, we did add Kashner.

01:49Remember they got added Kashner?

01:50We're like, what?

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