Last night the "Signature win of the season"? Romy hit a Grand Slam and Narvaez hit the go-ahead in 11th. MLB Trade deadline is 1 week away. Cease available?
00:03Well, Greg, let's begin with Romy Gonzalez after the Red Sox big win against the Phillies last night in extra innings.
00:09Romy Gonzalez talked about what this win meant or what kind of win this was. Here was Romy.
00:15We got a great team over here and we compete, you know, obviously going down 5-0 to a team like that.
00:21It's not easy to come back from. I feel like this is, I don't want to say like a signature win of the season, but it feels like it.
00:28It felt like playoff baseball, you know, our backs were up against the wall and we didn't lay down and, you know, came out with the victory tonight.
00:33Okay, Curtis, we got a signature win.
00:36Are you a Romy and Michelle's high school reunion fan?
00:39Pretty good film. Yeah.
00:41Pretty good film.
00:41No, hey, that was, you cannot overstate what that was last night.
00:46If they get swept, especially coming back from being down 5, taking the lead and then the 8th, you get the Phillies to tie it up on the home run.
00:53They had played, Wiggy's been spot on.
00:57They've been way too, just, I don't even know what the adjective, they have managed poorly in extra innings.
01:04Last night they won the game and they needed it.
01:05Yeah.
01:06And so trade deadline week away.
01:09Why not do it today though, right?
01:10Like if you, if you know that you need help, is there a bigger series than the one against the Dodgers this weekend?
01:16That like, if you get swept this weekend, then the trade deadlines are relevant.
01:22Are you okay with a rental?
01:24Like, uh, the, the, the ongoing scuttlebutt now seems to be that the Padres would part with Dylan Cease.
01:34Um.
01:35What about the Skeener?
01:37I don't think they're, you gotta, you gotta give up your, you'd have to give the building.
01:42You'd have to include Fenway.
01:43Well, Libby Dunn had trouble buying a house in New York.
01:46Maybe she'd buy one here.
01:47But are you okay with, uh, I think he's a free agent at the end of this season.
01:52Of course.
01:52You're okay with a rental.
01:53Why not?
01:54Yeah.
01:54Even if it costs you Duran, because none of the Padres are really interested in Duran.
01:57Like they are, they are lusting after Jaron Duran.
02:00Like, would you be willing to part with Jaron Duran?
02:03Yes.
02:03And win it, win it this year with a, with a, you would really.
02:06Because I think even last night's game, and it's kind of continuing to show us that you
02:11need an, you need a number two starter.
02:14I don't trust Giolito, and I'm not all the way sold on Bayo.
02:18So I would rather a number two than that would rightfully slide them into the third, fourth
02:24starting roles and not have as much pressure on them.
02:28Yeah, but do you trust Duran Seas to be that right now?
02:31I mean, he's three and ten with a four, five, nine ERA.
02:34And I know he's been good in the past, but this season on a Padres team that's pretty
02:38good, he's having a horrendous year.
02:40I'm not saying, all I'm saying is I think if the Red Sox are going to make a move, it
02:45has to be for a guy that they know is the legit hands down number two.
02:51But you, like, you have to understand, was it passing yesterday that was talking about
02:56the Red Sox viewing the market as not being very good?
03:02I forget the word he used.
03:03He said it was unlikely that they made a major trade, something to that effect.
03:06Because, and he said they're not willing to in this market or whatever.
03:10However, you know, the value isn't there in the market.
03:12So that's the thing.
03:13So is Joe Ryan, now is he not available no more?
03:16I don't know if he ever was, and if he is, that's going to cost you a lot more.
03:21I don't care what that costs me.
03:22Yeah, fine sand threw water on that at the end of last week, I believe it was.
03:25It might have been over the weekend, actually, that Joe Ryan is probably unlikely to move.
03:29Okay.
03:30They have to go pitching, though.
03:31This nonsense about getting a first baseman, like, the platoon works.
03:35Like, if you're going to do one thing, go and get a pitcher.
03:38If you get a legit number two and you make the playoffs, the Red Sox absolutely have a
03:45chance to make the World Series.
03:46Because if you have crochet and a legitimate number two, you have maybe the best closer
03:52in baseball in Chapman.
03:54That's what you need to win a World Series.
03:56You need two great starting pitchers, and you need a great back end of the bullpen, and
04:00you're shortening games, and you have a shot against anybody.
04:02And they have enough bats where, if they can get hot, that they can really do some damage
04:08offensively.
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04:15Trade Duran Duran for just about anything.
04:18However, unless you can extend the player before the trade, I'm not doing it for a rental.
04:23Why?
04:23Who cares?
04:24Honestly, why do people care about that?
04:26Well, you're not going to have them at...
04:30If you had to choose a deep playoff run versus three years of a lesser player, which would
04:38you prefer?
04:38The deep playoff run.
04:39So what are we doing?
04:40But you also can't guarantee that you're getting a deep playoff run.
04:42Right.
04:43That's why it's a risk.
04:44But you can't guarantee me that you're getting three years of Duran.
04:46Right.
04:47Because they might trade him in the offseason.
04:48No, but you might get a better return for Duran, though, in the offseason, right?
04:51Yeah, that, you know...
04:53But Curtis is right.
04:54That return is not helping you this season.
04:57I understand that.
04:58I don't disagree.
04:59I'm just saying...
05:00We forget how great October baseball is.
05:03Just give us an October baseball season.
05:05Curtis, I'm totally with you.
05:06I want them to make the playoffs more than anything.
05:08Like, I absolutely do.
05:09Well, more than Drake May?
05:11No.
05:11Okay.
05:11You're right.
05:12Sorry.
05:12But you can't...
05:13I don't mean...
05:14But the rolling the dice on getting more in the offseason, truthfully, absolutely means
05:21nothing.
05:21Because what did you get for Mookie Betts?
05:24Poop.
05:24Poop diddly-bos.
05:24Right.
05:25So...
05:25I think Connor Wong is just about to turn it around.
05:27Right.
05:28So, my thing is, is if you can trade Duran right now and get a legit number two pitcher,
05:34so what if you, you know, you might get more in the offseason?
05:38Who the hell knows what that's going to turn into?
05:41The thing that I look at with this team is, if you have a legitimate chance to make a deep
05:45playoff run, you go out and you trade, especially a guy that there's a good chance you're going
05:51to trade him in the offseason anyways.
05:53The Luka trade by Dallas, far better than the Mookie trade by the Red Sox.
05:58Oh, it's not even close.
06:00Like, they at least got Anthony Davis.
06:02Yeah.
06:03And Cooper Flagg.
06:03Well, I mean, we're going to get into the rigging of it.
06:06We will be able to talk to Sam Kennedy about this very thing in an hour and a half at
06:14nine during the front office report this week.
06:16So, let's see.
06:19Stop with the Jaron Duran slander.
06:22He's been off a little bit this year, but he literally personifies the 2025 Red Sox identity.
06:29No, but I don't dispute that.
06:31That's the chemistry argument that I had.
06:33I don't dispute that.
06:34But I would say in 2026, Red Sox, is there a good chance that the team trades Jaron Duran?
06:43Yes.
06:43Right.
06:44So, that identity that you're talking about for the remainder of this season?
06:49It's going to be gone anyway.
06:50It's going to be gone anyway.
06:51Wiggy, I'm with you.
06:52Like, if the right opportunity is there, I would trade Jaron Duran.
06:56I'm open to moving him.
06:57I just don't know that, for me, like, Dylan Cease isn't quite as appealing as some other
07:02options would be.
07:02All right, so then look at the other options that might be more appealing, and that's the
07:06job of the front office to say, okay, who is the appealing guy?
07:10Who's the guy that we can get in, and we know we could pencil in him as the number two?
