Could Jarren Duran be moved at MLB's trade deadline? Will the Red Sox make a move?

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Zolak and Bertrand touch on the hottest topics surrounding the Red Sox and MLB's trade deadline.

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00:00and about jaron duran basically becoming a guy that the red sox

00:03cannot consider trading that he's made himself indispensable to this team

00:08well if that's the case maybe this team isn't that good

00:14like you're approaching the deadline and that guy's off limits jaron duran's off limits if

00:20you have a deal on the table that can make you significantly better and a team says hey

00:24we want to do a deal we want to give you a big major piece but we want to ran back we like him

00:30he's not untouchable you're gonna have to give up duran for number two and then some

00:36and by the way i'm not telling you alex spear is wrong i'm all right willing to bet they

00:41they view it this i don't think they're gonna do a damn thing i think they're gonna end up

00:44getting some pitcher that we never heard of it's gonna be charlie morton or something like that

00:48yeah just something something crappy that's not gonna get you fired up it's not gonna be a number

00:52two guy to put him behind crochet and maybe get the best out of bail who knows but

00:59i don't feel like they're gonna do anything what deadlines what six o'clock tomorrow six o'clock

01:03tomorrow oh there's not a lot of there's not a lot of heat out there as far as them being uh

01:09really involved in anything not that you have to you know the best deals are the ones you don't talk

01:14about but you should have some interest and some of these guys should be you know you you gotta you

01:20gotta at least put it out there that hey we're looking you know we we want to make a move because

01:24that that gets people to pick up the phone i don't think they're gonna get rid of duran

01:29i think i admire being hurt too i think it's just you gotta keep another guy

01:34that's another positional player and he's good for your team he's leader on your team he is i don't

01:42think anything should be off the table right now for the boston red sox i mean i think craig breslow

01:46needs to get creative here and be open to multiple avenues in terms of trying to improve this roster and

01:51to say shut it down and say that jaron duran's untouchable to me is crazy i'm not saying you

01:56have to move him by the way i'm not saying that's a must but why you wouldn't be open to a deal like

02:02that is beyond me and i know that he's he's uh hidden well right now but still all all avenues

02:08right now should be on the table i think for for breslow and company in terms of trying to improve

02:12this roster and make sure that you are going to be a team that's set up for a legit postseason run here

02:17in the back half of the season shouldn't he be confident in the fact that hey you know what

02:21i went out and got crocheted look how he turned out we got him that extension he's our stud right

02:25now i went out got bragman it was a right move at the time and we got rid of rafi hey you pulled

02:30that plug on that and the team got the team didn't get killed for it the team actually um got a little

02:37spark and had it for a while and you're sitting there and you're just you're pedaling right now

02:41you're you're you're you're staying you're staying above water but you need that little little

02:45oomph to help get you over it that's something we'll have right now shot mcadam writes an official

02:50with another team described the red sox to be in stealth mode with 48 hours to go

02:54quote haven't heard much of anything with them volunteered an executive with another club

03:01so they're not talking right now they're not picking up the phone right now yeah is it stealth

03:08mode if you're not actually doing anything no is that just not being active it's it's not stealthy

03:13it's more like we're not doing anything feels like they're inactive feels like they're not

03:18really going after it and so if they have multiple needs which they do which need do you think they

03:27end up fulfilling is it a starting pitcher is it a reliever is it a bat it's probably a reliever

03:34and i'm gonna tell you i think it's a bat oh do you know why why that's probably the cheapest thing

03:39to get look at the nailer trade we looked at that and said are you kidding me what was it the 13th

03:45and 16th 13th and 16th best prospect got moved in the not in baseball in that organization got moved

03:52doesn't that feel like there's something that could happen there and it would fall in line with

03:58everything else the red sox do these days which is what costs the least how do we cheap out on this

04:05and still get something that helps us because apparently you can't even consider trading a guy

04:10like jaron duran when that should absolutely be on the table and you figure it out after the fact

04:13by the way i don't love that for marcelo meyer and and his timeline of coming back no i mean if

04:21you're shutting that down that means that yeah it doesn't feel like he's coming back yeah so i don't

04:27know i'm i'm thinking they go after a bat starting pitcher that's expensive how do how do you get a

04:32starting pitcher without making a major deal at this is the time of year that's inefficient as

04:37they will tell you it's inefficient and so that's the most expensive type of thing to go get reliever

04:43i think is also very valuable at this time of year less expensive and i think right now the market on

04:48trying to acquire a rental bat might be decent and cheap and that's what they are they're cheap club

04:55john hayman coming out today saying that the astros are now kicking the tires on carlos correa

05:00right isn't that an opportunity though with the financial flexibility that you have given

05:04yourself there to go to minnesota and say hey you know what we'll take on correa's money we're gonna

05:09put him back with bregman on the same team and then let's get joe ryan in here as well and get

05:14creative and build a package around that and now all of a sudden you're not giving up as much for joe

05:18ryan because you're eating some of that money that you now can because you got rid of a bat that cost a

05:24lot of money right yes like get creative try to make something happen here if you're him they are

05:29dealing from a position of strength with their money their prospects their young players everything

05:35is available to you yes they've got it man they've got all the resources to do something big at this

05:39deadline my fear is the same that you have and many others have which is they won't that they just

05:47won't use it to their advantage so now we wait they're very quiet very little chatter deadline is

05:56tomorrow at 6 p.m i just don't get the brad stevens feeling where that is a guy that acts in stealth

06:02ways and all of a sudden pulls the triggers on oh drew holiday and porzingis are suddenly in boston

06:06or both those guys are getting shipped out it just doesn't feel like breslow operates that way so

06:11we'll see jp ricciardi is questioning the amount of drive that ownership has the amount of pressure

06:21that they feel to do something for this team i love that from him i love that as someone who's not

06:30he has a job at nesson but he's not beholden to the owner i think it sucks because i enjoy him on

06:36nesson and on the woosox games i don't know how much longer he's going to be there with how long

06:39is that last right i won't see him anymore when you say are they buyers or sellers what do we

06:44think the owner is doing right now oh good shot what do we think he's saying um well off the stuff

06:50t-bone said about the the having a salary cap he's for a salary cap so that kind of tells you where

06:55the mindset is to begin with we want to spend less make more money it's now a business for them

07:03i just don't i don't how much he cares about contending no i think the first question he asks

07:09what are the financial ramifications of whatever deal you're doing right yeah what's the money

07:16what do we owe if we do this deal let's hear it then what real quick what are you smoking cigars

07:22then when you sign breakman and those guys get those deals done right what message does that send

07:27i don't know that you're a mixed one you were back back in it tells you you're back in it right

07:31yeah i guess hey i woke up i'm back in it i'm ready to go again one contract isn't going to prove

07:36anything i'm sorry that that could that could be a one-year deal potentially as well yeah listen to

07:40this this is from uh what trade count what do they call this trade deadline countdown live

07:47is that what they're calling it here it is have a listen i think the directive comes from ownership

07:52i mean they're the ones who have to support it and back it and if there's god rails on you as to

07:57what you can do then you're only going to be able to make certain types of moves i you know the big

08:02question is uh you know is the drive as heavy as it was in 04 and 05 and 06 and 07 when man i i

08:08competed against those guys and the red sox was so tough and hard to beat and they always return you

08:14you threw one card they threw two cards uh so i don't know if those training wheels are off now i i

08:20think they're back on to the point where they want to have a little bit more of a controllable

08:25environment so you know it comes from ownership and ownership has to be the one that blesses the moves

08:30jp ricciardi spent nearly a decade as the gm of the toronto blue jays he knows how this works

08:38he also knows people and so when he says that if you're working with guardrails like he just did

08:43doesn't that feel a little informed sure does doesn't it reflect some of the things that have

08:47been written in the last week maybe from jeff passan about ownership and about it feels like

08:52those guys inside that front office might be speaking out a little bit against their owner yeah

08:57yeah and if you're in that front office how could you not be frustrated if you have a potential

09:04deal here if you're buying into the team and all of a sudden hey by the way you're not able to execute

09:10x y and z because it costs too much money so that's off the table so go in a different direction and

09:14you're going to be the one that everyone points to and says you didn't do your job at the deadline

09:18you didn't help this team yeah i've been stiff i would love to know like hey if you end up getting

09:22this deal done you're able to move and have somebody eat this devers contract

09:26were you going to be restricted to be able to not use that money or we you know what hey you

09:31you move devers and you get us out of this deal we're going to let you do whatever you want to do

09:35and maybe that was the expectation by by the way with breslow after moving devers he thought he was

09:39going to have a bunch of flexibility moving forward and now all of a sudden maybe that's not the case

09:44instead they're like oh that's great awesome we love moving that money off the books now

09:48this is all you get we're not going to reallocate those funds to another player or players

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