« We didn’t approach some of these conversations as though any players were off-limits. We couldn’t line up. »
« We didn’t approach some of these conversations as though any players were off-limits. We couldn’t line up. »
The Boston Red Sox improved their roster ahead of Thursday’s trade deadline — acquiring a lefty reliever Steven Matz from the Cardinals and a right-handed starter in Dustin May from the Dodgers.
But, given the dearth of a runaway contender in a wide-open American League this season, Boston’s inability to add a legitimate game-changing talent on Thursday still stands as a missed opportunity by Craig Breslow and his staff.
Speaking on Thursday an hour after MLB’s trade deadline passed, Boston’s chief baseball officer acknowledged the frustration doled by fans amid the Red Sox’s inability to reel in a big fish to help with this current playoff push.
“I understand the frustration and the disappointment because we’re all looking at the last week right now in terms of the trades that were made and weren’t made,” Breslow said. “And there’s not a lot of sympathy for how hard we tried to get deals across the line, I understand that. “We believe that we have a really young, exciting, talented team, and one that is capable of continuing to perform at this level and make it to the postseason, and that’s what our focus is on.
“And there’s decisions that were made at this deadline, they weren’t driven by an unwillingness to be aggressive. They weren’t driven by taking a highlighted or reinforced view of 2026 or 2027. We were aggressively pursuing acquisitions that could help us in 2025.
