How to fix 2026 Red Sox?

[mvp 78]

22 minutes ago, UtahSox said:

Arias, Witherspoon + young pitcher (Valera type). I think both teams should accept that deal. 

Nats say no IMO. Woods still has 5 years of control and is CHEAP. 

[Old Red]

29 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

There isn't an ideal inhouse solution.

Not at the moment. No!

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

Brez better be on the phone with other clubs just as desperate to make changes.

Arizona owes Marte $90 million. Give them Duran and their pick of one of his college pitchers from last year's draft... but they have to take Story, too.

Trevor's only owed $55 mil (including a team buyout in two years), compared to Marte's contract. And the new acquiring team can decide if they want him to play SS or 2B to replace Marte, where everyone already thinks Story would be better at this point. He has no veteran leadership with the Dbacks and wouldn't be dissed to be handed a starting job anywhere.

[UtahSox]

52 minutes ago, FredLynn said:

We failed to sign significant talent to improve the team offensively. I knew we would have trouble scoring runs. We had trouble scoring at the end of last year so this was extremely predictable. The talent was out there and available for the right price, but Henry prioritized profit over winning despite his lies to the contrary. Pretty sad that its not even May and the season is effectively over.

I think with similar salary, we could have had a much more competitive roster. I’ve been sitting on this, but to me this is Breslow assuming he is the one making decisions. I’ll explain why:

The last 14 months have been a mess for Beta Breslow…. So many wanted to just blame spending. ( I also believe the RS should never be outside top 5 in spending) 

But I think the biggest problem is, we have overvalued home growing talent, versus getting proven talent that can win now and in the immediate future. 

It’s not just one seriously flawed move—it’s the entire approach. The roster construction doesn’t make sense. There’s no clear direction. It feels like constant overvaluing of prospects, poor communication, and a tendency to wait until there’s actual locker room tension/ or lack of flow  before making a move—by then, the value is already gone. (Duran has less trade value now than he did in January.) 

Breslow knew coming out of October what this team needed: he said publicly “a real middle-of-the-order bat, a true #2 SP” and it was obvious to everyone after he traded Devers, the Bregman was the third base of the futur.
what transpired Nov-Feb That’s not “by design” we only got 1/3 goals accomplished……. IMO a failure to execute a clearly identified priority. The Bregman deal was a no-brainer to me. And a mistake that needs accountability by loss of job. We botched that. Then this idea to zag instead of zig was idiotic at best. 

The pitching moves: Ranger Suárez is still struggling, I think he will be fine long term. Yet I also think we would have been better/ significantly better with Joe Ryan or Alcantara+ Bregmanin that spot vs Suarez. 

The depth bets haven’t paid off. Jake Bennett /Johan Oviedo trades haven’t delivered. There’s no real impact arm here—just a collection of “maybe it works” guys. 

Holding onto guys like Brayan Bello, Peyton Tolle and Marcelo Mayer only makes sense if they turn into stars. If not, you just wasted your best opportunity to improve the major league roster when their value was highest. If those guys were moved for real impact players—someone like a Ketel Marte. The roster would be more balanced, with less pressure on everyone to overperform. (Story) 

I don’t even think this is about spending as much as people want to make it. It’s about philosophy. This front office is trying way too hard to homegrow everything instead of using prospects the way they’re supposed to be used in Boston—as trade capital to get proven players.

That’s the frustrating part for me. There was a clear path in November:

Re-sign Bregman 

Add a legit middle-of-the-order bat (even if that ended up being W Contreras)

Use your legitimate jam in OF/ pitching prospects to go get proven talent. (Alcantara/ Ryan + Marte)

Instead, they sat in the middle. Didn’t fully commit to winning now, didn’t fully commit to building for later—and this is what you get.

It’s been bad for our little Ivy League Beta. Really f***ing bad. 

[UtahSox]

35 minutes ago, 5GoldGlovesOF,75 said:

Brez better be on the phone with other clubs just as desperate to make changes.

Arizona owes Marte $90 million. Give them Duran and their pick of one of his college pitchers from last year's draft... but they have to take Story, too.

Trevor's only owed $55 mil (including a team buyout in two years), compared to Marte's contract. And the new acquiring team can decide if they want him to play SS or 2B to replace Marte, where everyone already thinks Story would be better at this point. He has no veteran leadership with the Dbacks and wouldn't be dissed to be handed a starting job anywhere.

I again think you overvalue our players. Marte is the best second baseman in baseball. They’re not gonna give him up in a salary dump. They already have a great shortstop in perdomo. Duran+Tolle and let’s go….. or Abreu+ Witherspoon+ Eyanson and let’s go……. 

[mvp 78]

38 minutes ago, 5GoldGlovesOF,75 said:

Brez better be on the phone with other clubs just as desperate to make changes.

Arizona owes Marte $90 million. Give them Duran and their pick of one of his college pitchers from last year's draft... but they have to take Story, too.

Trevor's only owed $55 mil (including a team buyout in two years), compared to Marte's contract. And the new acquiring team can decide if they want him to play SS or 2B to replace Marte, where everyone already thinks Story would be better at this point. He has no veteran leadership with the Dbacks and wouldn't be dissed to be handed a starting job anywhere.

That's less than AZ asked for over the winter. 

[UtahSox]

36 minutes ago, 5GoldGlovesOF,75 said:

Brez better be on the phone with other clubs just as desperate to make changes.

 

I could see Bohm, or Vientos/Baty on a Red Sox roster in the near future….. just as a reset for both teams

[notin]

25 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

Making a 22 year old the face of the franchise (many people did this before he reached MLB) wasn't fair to him. This goes back to the FO/Ownership running with the Big Three and buying on the highest outcomes for them years ago.

I don’t care if he’s the face of the franchise or not.  They’re had someone else filling that void, but he was more about himself than the team.  He’s a good player- likely their best - who receives unfair criticisms …

[mvp 78]

15 minutes ago, UtahSox said:

The depth bets haven’t paid off. Jake Bennett /Johan Oviedo trades haven’t delivered.

Bennett has an 0.86 ERA in 5 starts in AAA. What else do you want him to do? He has 2 more options after this year.

In his last option year, Perales is struggling with a 5.06 ERA in 4 starts.

Seems like a good trade to me. 

[mvp 78]

4 minutes ago, notin said:

I don’t care if he’s the face of the franchise or not.  They’re had someone else filling that void, but he was more about himself than the team.  He’s a good player- likely their best - who receives unfair criticisms …

Give me a 3-5 WAR me first guy over who they have put on the field so far. That last guy received his share of unfair criticisms and still does.

[mvp 78]

8 minutes ago, UtahSox said:

I could see Bohm, or Vientos/Baty on a Red Sox roster in the near future….. just as a reset for both teams

Bohm has been horrible for a long time and it's not looking better this year.

Just saw a video of Vientos running through his coach's stop sign at third. He'd fit in well here. 

[Old Red]

12 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

Give me a 3-5 WAR me first guy over who they have put on the field so far. That last guy received his share of unfair criticisms and still does.

👍👍👍.

[drewski6]

2 hours ago, mvp 78 said:

What would a 778 OPS (10 singles, 0 XBH, 278 SLG) LHB OFer do for this team? 

steal 100 bases. Also forgot he was lefty.

[drewski6]

1 hour ago, UtahSox said:

Update we are now dead F***ing last in HR’s… 13 in 24 games….

RS are pacing to hit 87.5HR’s that would be the lowest since 2001…… historically bad. 
 2014-2025 no team has hit less than 109 in a season. 
 

 Many on here were concerned about lack of home run power. Durbin has been a disaster, we need to trade for power….  James wood and Isaac Paredes? 

wow

[FredLynn]

Up until now I have said that Breslow SHOULD be fired. I changed my mind. I think he WILL be fired-maybe not now, but certainly at the end of the season. He has failed miserably.

[iortiz]

Probably we have to accept these young guys are simply not as good as we thought, including Anthony. Probably they are just mediocre at best. Young guys cost you a dime but the future is uncertain since they haven’t proved anything yet. Look at Bello. He ended up being nothing but mediocre. Look at Casas. He probably won’t get a MLB job again. Mayer hasn’t shown signs he is a good hitter. Anthony probably is the most overrated prospect in the history. Campbell is in oblivion. Abreu is inconsistent as hell. Rafaela is mediocre at hitting. He’s not disciplined. Narvaez has regressed badly, and probably will never put his 2025 numbers again. Duran has mental issues which always gonna tax him. Story is closer than ever to retirement. He is not an everyday SS anymore. Masa was a scam. He’s an automatic groundout. Wong? Utility at best. IFK? Are you f kidding me? he’s literally clogging the farm. I could go on and on. 

Either they sell the team or blow it out and start over again. Heck even the White Sox look better moving forward. I firmly think we traded the wrong prospects. 
 

This is a cold shower of reality. 

[moonslav59]

2 hours ago, mvp 78 said:

Trevor Story is the ultimate stat padder. 

But why would you say this 17 RBI guy is bad? 

Sometimes RBIs when you are ahead turn out to be needed, especially with our pen.

[Old Red]

4 minutes ago, iortiz said:

Probably we have to accept these young guys are simply not as good as we thought, including Anthony. Probably they are just mediocre at best. Young guys cost you a dime but the future is uncertain since they haven’t proved anything yet. Look at Bello. He ended up being nothing but mediocre. Look at Casas. He probably won’t get a MLB job again. Mayer hasn’t shown signs he is a good hitter. Anthony probably is the most overrated prospect in the history. Campbell is in oblivion. Abreu is inconsistent as hell. Rafaela is mediocre at hitting. He’s not disciplined. Narvaez has regressed badly, and probably will never put his 2025 numbers again. Duran has mental issues which always gonna tax him. Story is closer than ever to retirement. He is not an everyday SS anymore. Masa was a scam. He’s an automatic groundout. Wong? Utility at best. IFK? Are you f kidding me? he’s literally clogging the farm. I could go on and on. 

Either they sell the team or blow it out and start over again. Heck even the White Sox look better moving forward. I firmly think we traded the wrong prospects. 
 

This is a cold shower of reality. 

In other words it looks like a lot of SUSPECTS.🤫

[drewski6]

1 hour ago, mvp 78 said:

Nats say no IMO. Woods still has 5 years of control and is CHEAP. 

He might be super 2, and his arb years wont be cheap.  But its not like they are the pirates, they might not give away players as soon as they cross into double digit millions.

[drewski6]

50 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

Bohm has been horrible for a long time and it's not looking better this year.

Just saw a video of Vientos running through his coach's stop sign at third. He'd fit in well here. 

On. Fire. All. Day.

[drewski6]

13 minutes ago, FredLynn said:

Up until now I have said that Breslow SHOULD be fired. I changed my mind. I think he WILL be fired-maybe not now, but certainly at the end of the season. He has failed miserably.

Im not sure you can fire him.  As in, I dont think he'd believe you if you fired.  Kind of like office space, um, we actually fired that guy years ago and he jsut kept showing up.

When Breslow is told things to his face, he accuses the person of lying/bluffing and hes too dense to communicate with.  How do you fire someone who cant be communicated with?

[Old Red]

6 minutes ago, drewski6 said:

Im not sure you can fire him.  As in, I dont think he'd believe you if you fired.  Kind of like office space, um, we actually fired that guy years ago and he jsut kept showing up.

When Breslow is told things to his face, he accuses the person of lying/bluffing and hes too dense to communicate with.  How do you fire someone who cant be communicated with?

With the 12th pick in the HOBO draft you couldn’t have expected better.

[iortiz]

Most teams have at the very least an A/A+ player at offense, mostly big market teams. Who is our A/A+ player? Who?

Contreras comes to mind but he’s nothing but a solid B in my book. Who else? And I’m not talking about potential delusional BS. 

[mvp 78]

47 minutes ago, drewski6 said:

steal 100 bases. Also forgot he was lefty.

He hasn't stolen 60 in a year in MiLB before, but he'll steal 40 more in MLB while getting on base less vs better catchers? Ok. 

[drewski6]

5 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

He hasn't stolen 60 in a year in MiLB before, but he'll steal 40 more in MLB while getting on base less vs better catchers? Ok. 

Ichiro never had a 100 SB season in the minors.

[notin]

2 hours ago, UtahSox said:

Arias, Witherspoon + young pitcher (Valera type). I think both teams should accept that deal. 

Roman, Arias, Witherspoon and Valera for Woods?  Or just the latter three?

Either way, one side isn’t making that trade…

[mvp 78]

25 minutes ago, FredLynn said:

Up until now I have said that Breslow SHOULD be fired. I changed my mind. I think he WILL be fired-maybe not now, but certainly at the end of the season. He has failed miserably.

Ben - 2012-15

DD - 2016-19

Bloom - 2020-23

Breslow - 2024-? 

My guess is Breslow gets another offseason to fix his mess. Pulling the plug after 3 years would be a nasty bit of business for Henry unless he has an internal candidate. 

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

1 hour ago, UtahSox said:

I again think you overvalue our players. Marte is the best second baseman in baseball. They’re not gonna give him up in a salary dump. They already have a great shortstop in perdomo. Duran+Tolle and let’s go….. or Abreu+ Witherspoon+ Eyanson and let’s go……. 

Just as long as we don't trade Eduardo Rivera! 

The Red Sox still have to wait for his stock to plummet, once they anoint him the NEXT HALL OF FAME CLOSER NAMED RIVERA... all this is bound to happen once they trade Chapman for Larry not even Lance Parrish at the deadline (I know he's 72, but he can still hit bombs in Old Timer's Slow Pitch down in FLA).

[Duran Is The Man]

2 hours ago, UtahSox said:

Update we are now dead F***ing last in HR’s… 13 in 24 games….

RS are pacing to hit 87.5HR’s that would be the lowest since 2001…… historically bad. 
 2014-2025 no team has hit less than 109 in a season. 
 

 Many on here were concerned about lack of home run power. Durbin has been a disaster, we need to trade for power….  James wood and Isaac Paredes? 

It will be interesting if the Red Sox get out-homered by a single player. right now they are only two ahead of Yordan Alvarez, who has 11. the ChiSox Munetaka Murakami has 10. nice job Brez, you f***ing stiff.

[UtahSox]

22 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

Bennett has an 0.86 ERA in 5 starts in AAA. What else do you want him to do? He has 2 more options after this year.

In his last option year, Perales is struggling with a 5.06 ERA in 4 starts.

Seems like a good trade to me. 

Way to take 1 line out of my ramblings and dissect it……… HOW HAS HIS AAA ERA  HELPED THE BOSTON REDSOX???