Jones & Keefe: Sonny Gray is a good start, but the Red Sox need more

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00:00you have no concerns he's the number two starter um and is that a technicality because

00:04bayo's the number two starter no no i mean i know what you mean like i i think they're both

00:08now most pitchers in the league are a giant step below gare crochet so there is already that

00:13i think sunny gray could have a really good season like giolito honestly had a really good

00:18season last year is the first time he was pretty much able to stay healthy i know he got hurt at

00:22the end but he had a good season i think he could probably duplicate that remember there was a

00:26stretch there where we were looking at it and saying crochet bayo and giolito were three of

00:31the 10 best american league starters for like months by era they were so i mean i think sunny

00:36gray can do that but i still think they're going to get somebody else or or at the very least i think

00:41they're going to really pursue it i don't think they're going to say all right all set guys we

00:45got our picture okay so that'd be like last year stopping at walker bueller i would be 100 on board

00:49with that that would be great like in a vacuum i like the sunny gray edition but what does it mean

00:55are they going to still spend and add pitching are they going to add a bat can they add both because

01:00i think they still need both they need a pitcher better than sunny gray yeah and they still need

01:04bats if they do all that i'm going to love the sunny gray trade yeah if this is a way to cheap out on

01:09paying another starter or to cut corners on the bat you're eventually going to spend on then i don't

01:15like it as much so i agree we don't know the complete picture yet but to me they need to add another

01:20pitcher and still a bat but does this also allow you to or two two more big signings let me rephrase

01:25it could be two bats with sunny gray and i get on board with it okay it could be a pitcher and a bat

01:29and i get on board with it yeah i like the move in a vacuum but a lot more work needs to be done they

01:34can't like dust their hands and be like we have a number two starter no i don't think they are

01:38otherwise i think he would have answered those questions a little bit different yesterday he got

01:42to point to like hey last time he was in the american league he was a runner-up in the scion he was

01:47200 strikeouts each of the last two years we think his stuff this that and the other thing like

01:52he could have talked it up that way but he's not and that's why i think that they're not done i think

01:57it also allows for somebody like mckenzie gore or somebody else that maybe doesn't have the full

02:04track record but they feel like there's a big upside and it's like all right we have a pretty high

02:08floor guy in sunny gray like we're pretty safe with now we can take a shot on mckenzie take a shot

02:13right there my rotation looks pretty dangerous