Jones & Keefe: Past shortcomings should motivate the Red Sox to be buyers at the deadline

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00:00They should be willing to be super aggressive when it comes to the farm system because Roman

00:07Anthony is 21 years old.

00:09He's already on your major league roster.

00:10Marcella Meyer is 22.

00:12He's already on your major league roster.

00:14You got Sadan Raffaella is young.

00:16Bayo is you got a bunch of young guys that are already on this team.

00:20So if you have to dip into a single A and double A, OK, yeah, go ahead.

00:25Go go for it.

00:27They should be aggressive.

00:28I wonder if the struggles of the last few years, which should motivate them, it's hard

00:36to tell with John Henry.

00:38It's hard to tell what he wants to do because they're just so plain personalities.

00:42You know, they don't talk with any real excitement.

00:44No, they don't project excitement or aggressiveness.

00:47It's just kind of like, well, these are what the numbers are and this is what we're going

00:49to do.

00:50So as a fan, it's tough to get on board to be like, all right, these guys are these guys

00:53going to do this.

00:54And we've heard it before, too.

00:55Like we've heard, you know, Sam Kennedy comes on the station every couple of weeks on with

00:59Greg's show and he maintains they're just as interested in winning now as they have

01:04been before.

01:04But you're like, we can kind of see like it's very clear like that's not the case.

01:09You know, I don't think anybody was going to be as into it as they were in 0304.

01:12That's understandable.

01:13But you do have a team that is worth investing in.

01:18I mean, they proved it.

01:19They were they were they were teetering.

01:20And after the Devers trade, you know, it took them a minute.

01:24They won their first game after Devers, but then they had the losing streak.

01:27You know, like, oh, man, this season is kind of falling apart on us.

01:30And then they went on this 10 game heater.

01:32And so can they can they keep that up specifically with a guy like Lucas Giolito, who's on the

01:37mound today, who whether they add a starting pitcher or not is going to have to be really

01:43important, you know, he's got a three, three, six and one year, six and one and one.

01:48Yeah, the guys, the guys have been fantastic this year.