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Thread of Craig Breslow quotes from his interview on MLB Network 🧵

On starting pitching: “I’ve been pretty outspoken, pretty vocal about the need for us to improve starting pitching. I think that can come through multiple channels. One thing we need to do is understand how our internal guys can take a step forward. We also need to pursue the trade markets and free agency, so we’re actively engaged in all three of those and we need to figure out a way to have more consistent starting pitching.”
On ownership financial support: “I think that one thing that’s true is historically ownership has been incredibly competitive and incredibly supportive of providing the resources necessary to field as competitive a team as possible. That’s not any different right now and our job is to figure out the way to make the best baseball decisions that we can to field a competitive team in ‘24 and beyond. I think we can point to a really exciting emerging group of young position players. We’ve got to figure out a way to complement them on the mound.”
On Triston Casas and the position player group: “I anticipate a full, healthy season from Triston and he’s a guy who took a significant step forward with the bat. He can really hit, and he’s not alone. There are a number of players who took a significant step forward – we can point to Duran and Rafaela and others and getting Trevor Story back for a full healthy season. So we’re really excited about what we should be able to do on the offensive side. We’ve got to play better defense and we’ve got to pitch better.”
On the trade market vs free agency when looking for a starting pitcher: “I think we have to pursue both markets in parallel because trades can come together really, really quickly and also free agency requires a partnership, a fit on both sides. So we’re going to do both of those things. The one thing that I can pretty confidently say is that controllable starting pitching is a premium and it’s something that we need to work really, really hard to develop internally over time as well.”
On the organization needing to prove itself to the fanbase: “I think there’s a feeling that we have to uphold the standard that Red Sox fans and that the Red Sox organization has come to realize over so much success over the past two decades. What that looks like, I think we’re still trying to figure out. I do think that there’s a real appetite for us to be as competitive as we possibly can be in ‘24, but also beyond. I think a really important piece of roster construction and organizational health is maintaining success year over year. So we don’t want this to be kinda a flash in the pan, we want to make sure we’re accomplishing both the short term...

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Thread of Alex Cora quotes from his interview on MLB Network 🧵

On the need for internal improvements: “I do believe there’s a few things that we’ve got to do better as a baseball team. I know the expectations of the fanbase and everybody else is to add this free agent or sign this big guy, whatever, but I do believe, from my perspective, we need our guys to be better – Whitlock, Houck, Crawford, Bello, We need Trevor Story to get back to the offensive force that he was in Colorado. We need Raffy Devers to be better at third base. Triston Casas, the way he finished the season last year, just take off from there and be a dominant first baseman. I do believe we’re gonna make some moves, we’re ...
On the biggest rotation needs: “The most important thing is for Chris Sale to be healthy, to Brayan Bello to take the next step, to Garrett Whitlock and Tanner Houck, bounce back from a tough year. You’ve gotta remember, three of those guys last year in the offseason, they were coming back from surgery, their offseason was cut short, and I don’t think they hit their stride during the season. From our end, we need our guys to be better, to improve and hopefully we can accomplish that.”
On Trevor Story: “As you know, he’s a very dynamic player. He’s not only a good defender, can hit the ball out of the ballpark, he can run the bases well, he can steal bases.Where the game is going right now as an industry, he’s kinda like the perfect fit at shortstop for a team that has championship ambitions. With Trevor, last year having the surgery,obviously the offseason wasn’t great, he was trying to play catchup at the best level of baseball in the world last year, and offensively it wasn’t great. Defensively, he instantly made a difference, you saw it. We were a bad defensive team and with Trevor...
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