Jones & Keefe: Was Tampa Bay a turning point for the Red Sox? Rob Bradford joins the show

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00:00Who are the real Red Sox, Rob?

00:01We've seen them get blown out by the White Sox and Rays.

00:03They've won these last two games.

00:05They struggle to score.

00:06They strike out a ton.

00:07They make a bunch of errors.

00:08Cora called them out.

00:09Who are the real Red Sox?

00:10You know, I am anxious to see if they go on a run here

00:15and we look back at that Cora, as you said,

00:17the Cora thing after the game the other night, Monday night,

00:22and we're like, okay, well, that was a turning point.

00:24I don't know.

00:25It's a nice narrative.

00:25We'd like to tie all those things in a nice little bow.

00:28But I do know this is that Alex Cora doesn't do that a lot.

00:32I wrote this.

00:33I think the last time I remember him doing it this early in the season

00:35was 2019 when they got off to a terrible start on that 11-game road trip.

00:41And, you know, they come back and they play better

00:43and they win the last two.

00:44But I think that you ask, like, what they are.

00:47I think they're still a good team in a tremendously flawed American league,

00:52and that's why they can keep in this.

00:54I mean, we are talking sky is falling for the last couple of weeks,

00:58and here they sit at 10-10, right in the middle of it,

01:02just like everybody else, and that's how the American league is.

01:05But I do know this is that they got to fix some stuff, man.

01:08They got to fix some stuff.

01:10It's all right if you have a guy, for instance,

01:13that you have to bury in the lineup because they aren't producing.

01:17But when that guy is the cleanup hitter for the first two weeks of the season

01:21that all of a sudden you're burying way down the lineup

01:23because you're just trying to take the pressure off,

01:25that isn't a dynamic that's good for anybody.

01:28They're going to clean some stuff up here in the coming days.