Jones & Keefe: Lou Merloni on the Red Sox season

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00:00Would you consider this season for the Red Sox a success?

00:04I think big picture, no.

00:06You know what I mean?

00:06Because you just see the Boston Red Sox

00:08and you should be in the playoffs every single year.

00:11And that should be the expectation.

00:13What, three years in a row?

00:14It's the first time in 30 years you

00:16haven't made the postseason?

00:17So no, I mean, that's not a success.

00:21That's a disappointment.

00:23So then you kind of get over, but the disappointment

00:25was the offseason, right?

00:27So then you walk into spring training

00:28and you look at this group, and G Alito goes down,

00:31and Whitlock goes down, and Story goes down week one,

00:33and then Casas goes down two weeks later.

00:36And I remember the third week of April

00:37thinking this is going to be a disaster.

00:40But young guys stepped up.

00:42So from that point on, based on your expectations,

00:46there were a lot of good things.

00:47There were some building blocks.

00:49There was your three starters kind of gave you 30 starts

00:52and kind of got through it and gave you a foundation year.

00:55So there were some good things.

00:58I think that's why people would say it's a positive.

01:00And I've said that in the past, but that's only

01:03because your expectations of what

01:04they did not do in the offseason to make this team better.