Will the Red Sox add the right pieces in 2025 offseason?

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00:00Are we looking with the Red Sox, Maz?

00:02It's been quiet so far, and they've been linked to a bunch of different people out there.

00:06But what has me most concerned is something John Marossi reported yesterday that, you know, hit a nerve.

00:14And that is, and I'm paraphrasing, but Marossi was talking about Alex Bregman and Pete Alonzo

00:19and how the Red Sox are in on both of those players, and he was handicapping their odds for a successful offseason.

00:26And he said something to the effect of, if they could sign one of those two guys and a pitcher,

00:32that would be a successful offseason.

00:34And I heard that and said, one of those two?

00:38One.

00:39No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:41They need two.

00:43Because they lost Bregman, they have to replace Bregman and add one.

00:48They don't get to count Bregman coming back as a bat.

00:53That is no good.

00:54They weren't good enough at the end of the year, and I know Roman Anthony was out.

00:58They were still short in the lineup.

01:00Even with Roman Anthony in there in the second half of the season, as Alex Cora recently pointed out,

01:06their offense was different.

01:07And they hit fewer home runs in the second half.

01:11Amid all this talk about how runs in the World Series were produced via the home run,

01:15and I don't have the stat in front of me, but a large percentage of runs in the postseason,

01:19let alone the World Series, were produced via the home run.

01:22They need more power in the middle of the lineup.

01:24That's two bats.

01:25That's not one.

01:27And yet, I now feel, so ultimately what I would constitute as a good offseason for the Red Sox, Mike,

01:33is two bats and a starting pitcher at the front end.

01:36So that's three good players if you want to be World Series caliber.

01:41The way Marossi said it is a pitcher and a hitter, one of each.

01:48And to me, that doesn't quite get it done, and it tells me two things.

01:51One, they're not going to extend financially to go get those players.

01:56And two, they're still banking on the development of some of their young guys,

01:59and the ones that I would emphasize are Christian Campbell and Tristan Casas.

02:04Both of those guys we look at and say, well, who the hell knows what you're going to get there?

02:09And they don't look at it that way, and that scares me.

02:12Well, it speaks to the financial clamps.

02:14That was the term that was used last week by Jeff Passan, right, on Craig Breslow.

02:18Like, this sucks.

02:19But I'm not surprised, because I don't expect them to be the Red Sox of old ever again.

02:22They run this operation like it's the Minnesota Twins.

02:25And last week at the GM meetings, Breslow was asked, could you sign two bats when he was talking about the options on offense?

02:35And he said, we could.

02:38I think we're going to be open to every conceivable path to improving the team.

02:43So I heard could, and I read unlikely.

02:47So that's just me.

02:49Now, that might be a me problem.

02:52But I read the word, well, we could.

02:53Parathetically in a perfect world.

02:56Right, meaning not our preference.

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