If Craig Breslow is 'desperate' to keep his job, that's bad news for Red Sox at the trade deadline
Jake and Fitz argue that Craig Breslow cannot be allowed to manage a trade deadline while desperate to save his job, especially when the team should be selling. They outline the nightmare scenario of overpaying for a mediocre player just to squeeze out a few extra wins.
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Exactly.
Talk on this point, 'cause I did wanna mention it.
I didn't do it, you did.
That's a good point.
Yeah.
Talk on that point- Where- ...'cause it's 100% correct.
You cannot have a guy desperate to save his job managing a trade deadline where you should probably be selling.
If the fl- if it was flipped, the scenario, like he was desperate to keep his job and the team was really good, that's, that's one thing, I guess, because, like, if you're buying, you're a good team, you know?
Yeah, if you're gonna be in anyways.
Yeah.
Like, yeah.
But, but I Whatever.
It's, it's not that scenario.
It's, it's the, the former.
that just can't y- like, I mean, to put it plainly, that can't be allowed.
It can't be 'Cause, I mean- Well- the doomsday scenario is, like, s- a good, a decent bat goes on the market and he freaks out and trades, like, Arias plus- I don't know if he'd do Frank, but even then it's still, like, one of the, one of the couple pitchers who i- in- Yeah the lower levels of the minors have been on fire, you know- Yeah so far this year.
And, and that's not to say, and that's not to say, like- You, you trade that for, like, I don't, I don't mean to cut you off, but you trade that for, like I know, I know- Here's a, here's a good example.
Here's a good example I, I, I know the contract situation is- Like Merrill Kelly.
Like Merrill Kelly last year.
Yeah.
To call it that.
Like that sort of trade, yeah.
The hitter.
That type of hitter, you know what I mean?
The, the, the equivalent.
Yeah.
Like of a Taylor Ward, who's a good, good enough of a hitter.
Like, and I know it's not a complete apples to apples, the contract situation with Ward, but I just figured, you know, with the Orioles, like, a, a solid enough of a player goes on the market but you completely overpay for him just to get to, like, what?
80 and 82 or something like that?
