All's I know is that I have a pretty comfortable feeling about Breslow being the right guy to run this team for a while.
My main source of anxiety right now is Cora's status for next year.
I guess it'll have to be said a zillion times, but none of us wanted that contract. The Red Sox just didn't make a serious effort at a reasonable new extension.
I like the fact that you can still limit the appearance to 1 or 2 batters if they are the final outs of the inning and you get the job done. I think that makes it a fair compromise.
I have no doubt that the Red Sox front office feels exactly the same way.
If they do buy it will be something more along the lines of the moves DD made in 2018.
I think having some hindsight on this deal is fair, because I don't think anyone thought at the time that the only addition would be Giolito. We were all dreaming bigger than that, and that played into assessments of this move.
He cares from the perspective that dead money is bad for the relationship between payroll and on-field success.
The Devers extension is looking like a good investment, for the moment at least.
It's silly to speculate about whether they thought he would be healthy. Reality confirms it was very much possible.
And your statement about Giolito is also pure unfounded speculation.