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And Im not really getting won over by the but who would we replace him with concerns. I lean towards plenty of people would want CBO of the red sox, and if you cant get a top applicant, you jsut fully guarantee the salary. Very few people will turn down 3 yrs/ 20m guaranteed. And you can prob get CBO notin for half that. My concern, however, is that NOtin wont prioritize fixing the offense either.

The budget went up but the team went down.

Breslow gets a full F. He knew we needed offense, he failed to get it and then pretended like it was a choice. The pattern of him acting like a full dictator align with how he answers questions, which i see with my own eyes. Hes like one of those vegans who cant stop telling you that they are a vegan (no offense to any vegans). "Im the CBO, you see Im the CBO. I make the final call. IM in charge. Did I tell you yet that Im the CBO?" I think the difference between 2025 and 2026 was Coras magic running out. We had a team of limp noodle bats who overperformed last year like Toro and Lowe and Eaton and these guys created an illusion that we had bats. Breslow cant get real bats and fired the guy who made him look good because he got spooked that the guy who deserved the credit was going to get the credit. Now we get the leftovers.

But of course Im open to the obvious counter : just because Brad went from coach to front office, doesnt mean it would work for Cora....Because they are two different people , and two different sports, and two different organizations....But I was down to give Cora a try, and I do believe he would have done well in that role, and I do agree that was a big contributing factor to Breslow kicking him to the curb.

Maybe, I think they should have made Cora the CBO. Part of that is because I am a Celtics fan and I didnt thin Brad was a great coach, but thought he was great when he kind of "failed up into a promotion"

But they do have full time jobs for both players due to Romans injury.....So I dont think its 100% fair to be like Jeff Passan had some incredible wisdom/foresight and we should have listened. I agree that Breslow is set to end on a whimper, but I dont agree with that this belief is married to a debate about when and where we should have traded Duran. Not necessarily saying we shouldnt have traded Duran but I am saying that we dont need to look too far beyond the standings and the stories of less than stellar leadership and making the culture/locker room toxic

We are going to have to win like 20 in a row for renting to be a good option.

My bad, its a sirloin. The seven pepper steak sirloin salad from longhorns.

And if they say no, i get to eat the steak salad

Okay. What about Aiva Arquette for two pitchers in their late 30s. Id even throw in a Peppercorn crusted sliced strip steak over a garden salad from Longhorns.

Gray + Chapman?

But its a pattern with breslow, not an isolated incident. Watch any interview with breslow and he will bring up how he is the final decider multiple times. Only exception is when he axed cora , for that he said "we" and he got corrected.

IF you are saying that you are on the fence about selling, but would jump on this because too good to pass up - agreed. Just want to amke sure i am understanding you correctly.

Do you think we can get sebastian walcott from rangers for sonny gray??

Fangraphs gives us a 20% chance to make the playoffs. I still lean sell

If you think Bres didnt treat Devers with respect, wait until you hear about how he treated Story and Whitlock

well this has me rethinking my initial reply to NOtins question in whihc i responded "i assume not"

True, but also true ^

sounds like more of the same

I assume not.

My case on Anthony is that you should not have expected him to be a superstar, not that you shouldnt have expected him to fill a role.

But story has gotten significantly hurt in like 4 of his last 5 seasons and Anthony has gotten hurt in 100% of his MLB seasons, so I dont think its particularly smart on Breslow to assume he would have gotten a full season of the noted projecteions. Regarding Narv, I mean what is he going to finish within 1-2 WAR of where we thought? Hes kind of doing his job, and we shouldnt look for production from Catcher anyways. I hear you on the player by player vs their expected production levels. The death by 6-9 disappointments to varying degrees. But again, I think that a big failure and what makes this level of stinking possible is the complete lack of star power on the offensive side. We should not have expected really anybody on this team to be a superstar hitter. Contreras is getting up there in years. Abreu has historically struggled vs lefties. Anthony is super young and got hurt last year. Maybe Duran - but hes been erratic over his tenure here as a whole. And I know fans tend to dislike stars. They dont like the paycheck. They dont like how they get so much credit. Fans tend to like the scrappy and overlooked role players....BUt I do think that the people who are like "no big contracts"....."Be super efficient" ....."Look at this team from a position by position breakdown as opposed to from a perspective of who is/are our elite hitter(s)".....Pitching and defense wins (with timely or just a little hitting)....max efficiency (so dont even consider a DH , we cant waste Masas pay) These kind of things that we consider to hear from the budget hawk sox fans, Im jsut saying that there is another side to that. There is a downside. And I believe we are seeing it.

No, I'm sure it has worked, I am just saying that this year is not a string bad luck. It was a bad vision and bad execution by the CBO. Although, you could argue to be this far below expectation it would require all 3: bad luck, bad vision, bad CBO execution. If you are expected to have the 10th worst offense in baseball, and you wind up bottom five - I dont think we get to excuse it with bad luck, even though I acknowledge that there was some bad luck. Kind of like if you drive recklessly and injure someone, sure there is some bad luck in that, but you dont exactly get to use it as an excuse.

You will not ask questions about why we fired Cora, you will shut your mouth and do what we pay you to do.

And you are wrong. Cuz we have good SP, good closer and a modicum of hitting and we stink. You got the team you wanted. Only a little hitting but a ton of pitching. This is the team of Joe Bradys dreams. And thats why you were still saying its early until like a week ago.