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Not only is the front office speaking to the media after the players do, they haven’t even talked to the players themselves yet?

One big difference between Bloom and Breslow was supposed to be that as a former player Breslow would be more in touch with the baseball people. I guess not.

We are carrying the Red Sox Rafael Devers trade press conference on 98.5 The Sports Hub with Joe Murray You can tune in here: youtube.com/live/GtYSKmGdT…

Craig Breslow asked how this trade helps the Red Sox this year/in the short term "On paper, we're not going to have the same lineup on paper than we did. But this isn't about the game that is paid on paper. This is about the game that's played on the field and ultimately winning

Kennedy: “We couldn’t find alignment with Raffy. It’s the truth.”

Craig Breslow says there was no mandate to unload all of Rafael Devers' contract: "The mandate is to assemble the best team that we possibly could. And to do that, we needed to create a more functional roster...rotate more guys through the DH spot."

Sam Kennedy says the team "couldn't find alignment" with Devers. "We worked at it, we had a different vision for him going forward than he had."

Sam Kennedy says the Red Sox front office "worked tirelessly to upgrade our pitching in this deal."

Both Sam Kennedy and Craig Breslow answer 'no' when asked if it was a 'condition' for any team to take on Devers' full contract in a trade Breslow: "We were trying to improve the long- and short-term outlooks, we were trying to provide some additional roster flexibility, and we

Craig Breslow: "I think we rightfully set a really high bar to execute a trade of this magnitude."

Sam Kennedy on the Kansas City meeting between John Henry and Rafael Devers"That meeting was full of candor, openness, honesty...we just weren't able to get there on a shared vision for his role going forward." Mentions he, Breslow, and Alex Cora had similar conversations with

Sam Kennedy asked what the Red Sox's 'vision' for Rafael Devers was that they couldn't get to the same page on: "I think it's best to leave it at we didn't have a same, shared vision of what was in the best interest of the team on the field. This was a baseball deal."

Good job Matt McCarthy!

Oh no they went full Bruins

Craig Breslow on Rafael Devers having to go back to Fenway in a taxi cab: "That was just logistics to the timing and obviously him needing to make sure he got all of his stuff."

Craig Breslow on Alex Cora's reaction to the Rafael Devers trade: "Ultimately Alex is someone who puts the Red Sox organization first so he is behind this and supporting it." Says he spoke with Cora throughout the process leading up to the deal.

40 minutes of questions to Sam Kennedy & Craig Breslow. Seems like the company lines are... 1. They wanted more flexibility with the DH spot that Devers wouldn't give them 2. Adding pitching was important 3. This wasn't about cutting payroll To me, that's what they're selling

The Red Sox 'record' over the last six-plus seasons: 474-469, 16th win% in baseball (50.3%). They've made the playoffs once in that span, every other AL East team has at least 2. Other teams with 0 or 1 playoff appearances since 2019: DET KC TEX LAA SEA WAS PIT CHC CIN SF COL

Rafael Devers should have this printed out and hung in his locker in San Francisco

Craig Breslow says on a NESN interview the conversations about trading Rafael Devers started "a few weeks ago"