{"id":72801,"date":"2025-08-01T08:58:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T08:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=72801"},"modified":"2025-08-01T08:58:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T08:58:05","slug":"craig-breslow-defends-red-soxs-underwhelming-trade-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=72801","title":{"rendered":"Craig Breslow Defends Red Sox’s Underwhelming Trade Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"
The MLB Trade Deadline has officially come and gone. The Boston Red Sox made two notable moves, trading for pitchers Steven Matz and Dustin May. However, was it enough?<\/p>\n

Matz is a good reliever and May provides rotation depth, but neither is the type of high-impact player that makes a team dramatically better.<\/p>\n

The Red Sox were linked to some of those players, including stars such as Dylan Cease, Joe Ryan and Eugenio Suarez. However, they failed to reel in any of the big fish that were moved at the deadline.<\/p>\n

While Boston\u2019s upgrades were marginal, several of their competitors got significantly better, including the New York Yankees, Houston Astros and Seattle Mariners.<\/p>\n

Accordingly, many Red Sox fans are feeling disappointed after weeks of buildup and hype. Boston\u2019s chief baseball officer Craig Breslow understands their frustration, but says the lack of a blockbuster move wasn\u2019t due to a lack of effort.<\/p>\n

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Craig Breslow explains why the Red Sox \u2014\u00a0despite being “uncomfortably aggressive” \u2014 didn’t do more at the trade deadline.https:\/\/t.co\/Oq9lUvq90R<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re happy with the guys we brought in, with Steven and Dustin, but we also pursued real impact players that we felt like could improve our team in \u201825 and beyond,\u201d Breslow said on a post-deadline Zoom call with reporters, per MassLive\u2019s Chris Cotillo. \u201cWe were uncomfortably aggressive in trying to pursue them in the players we were trying to put into deals. Ultimately, it wasn\u2019t from a lack of effort.\u201d<\/p>\n

Breslow added that Boston\u2019s full farm system was on the table during trade discussions and that no prospects were considered untouchable. He said that he was unwilling to trade anyone on the Major League roster, however, which may have closed off certain deals.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf fans were in the office during this deadline, they would see that guys we didn\u2019t expect to be willing to talk about going into these conversations, we made available,\u201d Breslow said. \u201cWe tried to put the most aggressive offers we could in hopes they were going to end in deals.\u201d<\/p>\n

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While Breslow\u2019s front office pushed hard to make a major move, he knows that fans ultimately care about results. There\u2019s no partial credit for trying or almost getting a deal done.<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand the frustration and the disappointment because we\u2019re all looking at the last week right now in terms of the trades that were made and weren\u2019t made,\u201d said Breslow. \u201cThere\u2019s not a lot of sympathy for how hard we tried to get deals across the line. I understand that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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