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Because what good is a stolen base if you can’t string together 2 hits in the same inning? This team hits well when there is no pressure on, which tells me they are all trying to do too much. That boils down to not trusting your teammates around you. We have 4/9 hitting spots on platoon, or excessive tinkering due to roster construction DH- 2B- C- OF in general. This is another reason why I hate Beta Breslow’s roster construction of this team. You have so many guys, in and out of lineup, the pressure to perform to earn more playing time has crippled these guys. Which is especially detrimental to young development guys, and cancerous to the locker room... It’s like Breslow built this whole roster on contingency plans. “Depth for the sake of depth.” Seems like with all of his analytics, he forgot without fail the most important one chemistry/psychology.. My belief is that everyone does better when they have a role, even dogs do better when they know their jobs within the pack. Who knows their role on this team? The answer is “Not near enough of them.”

Good hell…… Story is a** cheeks.

YES I think the RedSox had the prospects to get Alcantara without using Tolle or Early in the package. Yes 100% I believe they did.

Way off: signing Bregman 9m more AAV than R Suarez trading Bello, K Campbell + a young arm for Alcantara 2m more AAV payroll saving by not signing IKF (6m) trading Tolle/ Mayer/ Duran for Marte 5m more AAV. 10m more in AAV would make us look much more offensive. so like I said it’s the over value of homegrown guys like Mayer/ Campbell/ Tolle etc. more than payroll.

No Roman…… RA19 Red Sox for life!

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

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

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…….

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.

Bichette/ Baty/ Vientos? Anyone of those 3 I think both teams could use some changes.

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

I have to give you credit….. you were not overly optimistic about this team in January/ February.

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?

Great post I’ve been saying that from the gut, no data to back it up.

thought it might be time for a thread specifically designed for ways to fix this 2026 roster or ideas or thoughts. I keep coming back to the same thing with the Boston Red Sox — the roster construction. The exact concerns I had back in November, December, January… they’re all still here. 1- Too much swing-and-miss. 2- Too much inconsistency. Taking balls in hitters counts, taking first pitch, strikes right down the middle. Then chasing late in at bat. 3-And now it feels like it’s snowballing into pressing — everyone trying to do a little too much instead of just taking good at-bats. Honestly, I’m at a loss. I don’t know what the fix is. So here’s the question: if you are Craig Breslow, what do you do at this point? Do you just let this ride for the rest of the year? Do you shake up the coaching staff? If so who would you fire? and who would be your replacement? Do you start making trades? Any ideas how to make this lineup better? One thing I’ve really noticed — when there’s no pressure, when we are up big, or way behind, the bats suddenly come alive. It’s like guys can finally breathe and just hit. But in real moments? It feels Pressed every single at-bat. And the numbers manifest this: • 82 runs scored — tied for 2nd fewest in MLB • 13 home runs — dead last We’re tied with the Giants, but they play in one of the toughest HR parks in baseball, while we play at Fenway. Dodgers have hit over 3x as many HR’s. Triple the Red Sox (42) • Next lowest team has 17 ( big gap) That’s what makes it even more frustrating. So we don’t have big fly ability and the odds of stringing together hits at same time in order to drive in runs feels like a long shot at best. It also feels like when the pitching shows up, the offense disappears — and a lot of the runs we have scored feel like garbage-time runs that don’t impact the game. I just don’t see a clear fix right now.

Nailed it! Maybe someone else can hit one out??

Beta Breslow remember when you said “We need to add impact to this lineup and we need another starter at the top of the rotation.” this team F***ing sucks to watch. We just made Dustin May look good…….. Stop watching the first pitch go right down the middle. Masa great F**king AB with runner on 3rd. Hey maybe swing the bat??????????? 4-9 good hell this is pathetic.

He could probably sell the RS + his 80% claim in NESN and Fenway for north of 10b he will get his money back x10x on that day.

Yeah I’m at a loss. Suarez sucks, Bello sucks, story sucks, Durbin sucks bullpen isn’t great. This team is weird just can’t put my finger on it but everything looks so hard.

Offense rising from the grave!! Suarez another shaky start…… but at least we got some clutch hits. Come on Sox!!

Story AB’s are not even close right now, he looks so out of place right now…. Our lineup 5-9 is in the bottom 3rd of MLB and with Story mucking up 1-4 it’s making the top of lineup equally atrocious. We should see if Minnesota will trade B Buxton for Cede Rafaela.

Cede be is a hell of a lot closer to Brenton Doyle than Julio Rodriguez

Very early…

Someone should ask beta Breslow how he feels about being tied for last in league in runs scored while losing multiple games giving up 3 runs or less? What a joke. Not to mention it’s not fun to watch when team gets down by 2 runs in the 3rd and it feel insurmountable.

The thing about having an explosive offense is it puts pressure on the pitcher. I agree you needed your keep the 3 LHH Ofers, otherwise you werent just net positive lineup. Opposing pitchers can try and paint those corners, or get guys to chase….. because a walk vs this lineup never hurts you when we strike out 12-14x a game. McCullers in the game the other day looked as relaxed as a backfield 3 inning sim game vs our lineup. And it’s not fun to watch, pitching and defense junkies have to agree when Correa hit that 3 run home run you KNEW the game was over.