Rob Bradford outlines the Red Sox’s ‘MOTIVATED’ trade deadline approach | Jones & Keefe

Rob Bradford outlines the Red Sox’s ‘MOTIVATED’ trade deadline approach | Jones & Keefe

Guy Jones is off. Billy Lanny has slid over. And this hour we are joined by the one and only Rob Bradford. Bradford is brought to you by McFarland Energy, the heating, cooling, and bio heat delivery pros that Eastern Mass and all of Cape Cod depend on at Mcfarland Energy.com. McFarland. There we go. There it is. There it is. It’s been I got it in like 1:30 in the morning last night. Oh my god. Well, you were in Atlanta. You were at the Allstar. I know. sit. Yeah. I mean, let me let me just I don’t know if you know this. I was in Atlanta at the All-Star game. I don’t know if you know this. I got in 1:30 in the morning and I have a very very complicated relationship with this my take away from the All-Star game. Yeah, let’s hear it. With Uber drivers or lift drivers, what’s your Uber rating? Oh, I have a good I I’m go down to I’m paranoid about that. Mine’s Aren’t you guys paranoid about this? I was paranoid. Mine I took a tank one time cuz I took an Uber home from a beer fest once and clean up charges. Yeah. No, I didn’t throw up, but I think the guy thought that I would and so he was like looking at me in the back. I’m like, can I put the window down? The guy’s like, “Oh, please do.” So, I think that tanked it. But other than that, I’ve been I don’t put I don’t put it on don’t talk to me mode cuz I feel like right out of the gate that’s like leading to who’s this guy is. Yeah. Who’s this guy? I’m going to give him a bad rating. So, I’m like, “Oh, no.” But then you actually have to talk to him and you have all kinds of stories. So I have a like I said I have a very conflicted relationship because I don’t really want to talk to anybody but then some of the stories are really like what like I had one guy who was uh who was trying out for the USFL as a receiver. Nice but he just smoked too much of that weed you know like that gets all of us. He’s like back back in the day some he could have been the next great Birmingham Stallions wide out. Normally guys are like, “Oh, it would have been me, but I had like the knee injury.” This guy, you know, we just love pot. No guys in the NFL are currently. So, no, he was honest. And then uh you anytime you have a guy who has uh self-published his own science fiction novel, you know, is all you know coffee in the back seat. You Well, no. I don’t think it’s like a like a hard copy. It’s all up here, but you know, that’s a wild ride with Did you tell him you were a writer? Unfortunately. Is this two Billy? It’s this two writers just chopping it up. I get it. Uh then I had about another nice woman who was 35 or so and I said I do like she’s like, “Oh, what do you do?” You know, that’s the thing. What do you do? I’m just driving. Oh, what’s And here’s my go-to. What’s your dream job? You ask people what their dream job is. Yeah. I like to ask that. Huh. What was the answer? Like you’re your dream job right now, right? Well, a guy told me yesterday I’ll never get my dream job. And I was like, jokes’s on you. This is it. I’m living it. So much better than this. Too bad, pal. This is what it is. But you were in Atlanta. You had We played the Joe. Yeah. What do you got? We got headphone problems over here. I’m good. I’m good. Um Jones is always complaining about that, too. Maybe somebody should look at that. Yeah. Well, somebody should come in. But I said, “What’s your dream job?” Yeah. Yeah. What’d she say? She’s like, “I don’t know. I’ve never thought about it.” Like, how when you get to like 35? Yeah. Well, listen, I mean, some of us are late. Well, no, but the thing is though, I bet a lot of that, you know, that ends after, you know, 12 years old. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like I grew up, my dream job was to play professional baseball. Yeah, I got to high school. I’m like, I am not that good. So, that dream was killed right then and there. So, then I’m like, all right, why what am I shooting for now? Okay, but can you give me something? President of the United States. I don’t know. She’s like, make it through the day. Like, all right, start somewhere. I should ride. So, so anyway, it was like it was so good trip overall. It sounds like No, no, it was it was a good trip. It was a good I I will say this. if we’re I heard you guys talk about the All-Star game about the ratings and I think what it was and you said you talk about staying up late and I think really what this was an example of which was if you sat and watched the game you’re like h but basically if you woke up the next day and looked at the clips of the Hank Aaron thing of the of the hit off or whatever it was you were like that’s awesome and that’s how most people are consuming this anyway right so I That’s our world now. Yeah, there was cool moments in the game. I mean, I think you know, skiing school is a great way to start the game. You know, you have those guys. Show Otani’s in the game. So, like it was it was good. I think it was good for for baseball. You take away the home run derby at the end or or swing off, whatever you want to call it. And I can’t think of anything from the game that like that would have stood out. No. You know what I mean? And honestly, you know, I love talking to all these guys, but you walked into that American League clubhouse and like we’re the stars. You know, this where we’re where the Jones and I, we we did this the other week where we were like looking at this year’s lineups and then we were like, “Oh man, it used to be a lot better.” And then we started pulling up random old lineups, the Scott Cooper lineup. Yeah. Like Germaine Dye and like Travis Fryman and some of these guys like starting in the Allar game and you’re like, “Oh, but you forget those guys were like they were decent player. They were known for they’re all starting all they should be decent.” But I’m saying 10 year but 10 years from now, don’t you think we’ll look back and be like, “Yeah, Riley Green was really good.” No. Oh, okay. Take that green. I mean, there’s that green. You know, one one of the things I love is I I do love like the how how much these guys want to be there. We talked about Shane Smith, Danver’s own, right? Who had a good one, the greatest debate of the Allstar game, which is what’s the best Northshore beef? Um, but you know, he’s just so happy to be there. These guys thrilled Suarez, right? Well, this again, so happy to be happy to be there. Yeah. Yeah. So, but it’s Chris Chris Bubich of uh of Kansas City, Zack McKinstry of like all these guys are just so so happy to be there. Um, which is a great thing, but I don’t know if it leads to like, oh my goodness, what an alter game. But I will say this, the home run derby I loved and it was because of that. Are you talking about the swing off or like no derby? Oh, the night before. Yeah, I like the jump off. Great. Yeah. Yeah. And but the home run derby was because you had these guys who you don’t necessarily get to see a ton and you just hear about how like physically awesome they are. Junior Camro and O’Neal Cruz and and these guys and you’re like holy macro. James Wood like oh my I I don’t realize that guy could hit the ball that far. And so I go out to left field because I you know I want to mingle with a riff raff. Sure. And so how about that kid almost robbed one. Well kid left field. Well, they said he did. I mean, like, how are we can we effort him to get on the show? Let’s go. But it’s, you know, so I see one guy catches to catch the ball and everyone’s like, “Yeah, what a catch. What a catch.” Then a little while later, Byron Buckman hits one and it’s literally the next guy over. The guy goes to catch it and it hits him in the eye and his eye his eye looked like Rocky in the commercial and Rocky too. It exploded. Exploded. Yeah. Yeah. So, fun day at the home. Yeah. Well, and then talk about my instincts not being correct. When I go down to interview Byron Buckton, he’s just like he’s like, “That was the best experience of my life and everything else.” I’m like, “Oh, yeah. Do you realize you hit a guy in the eye? You can’t think of that as a hitter.” What’ he say? He’s like he didn’t really There’s nowhere to go for that. It’s like I It wasn’t your fault. It wasn’t your fault. You had to robin Williams him off the exact Thank you, Billy. Exactly. Um, yeah. So, anyway, it was No, it was good. It was good. Um, Joe Ryan obviously has been the number one conversation, not just from from you. You sort of started it, but Alex Bregman, Garrett Crochet, also kind of recruiting him a little bit as well. So, what was your take? So, I talked to Joe Ryan and he does like like how cool it would be to be traded, but I want It’s like so exciting. I do like Minnesota. So, but then the photo that Bregman posts of him crochet and Joe Ryan and then Joe Ryan doing the the GL I think what I think it was like the eyeballs emoji maybe. I don’t know. Is that what he was doing? He was doing something. It was very flirtatious. It was very Yeah. And by the way, like tight with Lucas Gileo. Okay. Uh, we’ll put it this way. It It has not gone through at the Red Sox clubhouse. It’s like this is a guy they want. They like Joe. They like themselves from Joe Ryan. Will Minnesota trade Joe Ryan? No. I don’t think so. And and I know that another report came out because they Thanks for coming in, Ryan. We got 50 more minutes with you. Absolutely. Well, I mean, took the wind out of the sail. I mean, do are they going to trade him the Red Sox? Well, no. Let me just start with Will they trade him? Like, is he is he up for grabs? cuz if he is, the Red Sox better be in the front of the line and they have plenty to offer to get him. They’re four games out of a wild card spot with teams in front of him. So, if you’re saying, is Minnesota a seller? They should be. I mean, I know they have two weeks until the deadline. They should be a seller. He’s very good. And like, you’re not just going to give him away for nothing, but are they willing to in what, two years give him $200 million? Okay, so this go back to it lines up with Crochet last year. Same sort of deal, right? So you go back to last trade deadline. The Red Sox tried to get crochet. A lot of teams tried to get crochet. The asking price was like, “Yeah, give us Marcelo Meyer and Roman Anthony and some other people.” I mean, this is the way of the world when it comes to these sort of pitchers at the trade deadline. Brennan Gomes of the Dodgers, get ready for the sick brag uh drop again. He was on the podcast and he said he told me he’s like in the offseason that our goal cuz they had this shock in our offse goal is to get to the trade deadline where we don’t need anything because it’s 3x for what you’re going to have to pay normally. And when you talk about a guy like Joe Ryan, that’s what we’re dealing with is is we look at the Garrett Crochet deal and how much they gave up. Well, if they traded for Garrett Crochet at the deadline a few months earlier, it would have been more than that. And that’s what you’re talking about. So sorry, man. Sad trombone, but it’s disappointing. Yeah. Do the Red Sox have the best package to give for Joe Ryan. No, I mean, I think the Red Sox, you know, they got to rid of a lot of guys. I mean, it’s not And they’re not They got to rid a lot of guys really. They’re not going to trade Meyer. They’re not going to trade Anthony. Christian Campbell now has this contract with them. You know, the password is fine. He’s an okay player. They have some decent minor leaguers, but I think that what you have to do is start introducing guys on the major league roster, which I don’t know if they’re going to do the Jiren Durans, the Raphaelas, like these sort of guys. What’s interesting is if you look at Arizona, this Okay, we start playing the name game. Yes, Arizona guy Zack Allen, right? This right, Zack Allen contract here, not having a great year, but boy, I’ll take like what he did in the postseason. like he’s the type of guy you want out out there. Uh the Arizona Diamondbacks are looking for young pitching because they have these guys coming up. So there you go. You you have some young pitching. You know, you have the Richard Fitz of the world. If you want to if if you want to jump ship on Tanner, how okay, like you have some pieces there to get a rental, which is probably going to be the way they go. If it’s not Joe Ryan, who do you think the best starting pitcher that will be traded? Ah, because we’re going over a long list. There’s a handful of guys that are, you know, we’re at the All-Star game that their names have at least been kind of mentioned. But again, if it’s if you have to give up way more now, maybe these guys end up getting stuck with their teams. But at some point, some of these sellers are going to say, “We, you know, we got to do what’s best for our team and we’re not going to just hold out like let’s get something now while we can.” Yeah. I mean, but that’s the thing. You look at the the starters that are traded at the deadline. It this is and Brelo said this to me the other day. This is undeniably the hardest thing to get at a deadline. What they are looking for is undeniably the hardest thing to get at the deadline because every team is overvaluing. You’re taking a risk. And this is why you hear like a guys like Charlie Morton’s name come up. And and everyone if they got Charlie Morton, everyone be like, “Oh, really? That’s it?” Well, you know, brace yourself because that’s what what you might be dealing with because you just can’t they simply then coming back to the Joe Ryan thing and I don’t really know. Well, I mean, maybe some of the Marlins pitchers, but you know, Cabrera is going to cost too much and and the other guy is is isn’t really producing this year. Like, I it’s going to be a rental and people aren’t going to be probably happy with what they got. So, sorry. Like, that’s how what the deadline is unless unless they say, “Hey everybody, we pushed the chips to the middle of the table. We traded Deborres. We did all this in off stuff in the offseason. Let’s go. Let’s go.” But that’s not really But like so Brezlo’s talked about, you know, adding an impact player, right? Impact player because last year they added five players. None of them were impactful. No. And all of them were traded with guys who were not going to be protected anyway. So how willing do you think he will be to to overpay or they are they going to say, “Hey, we’re we’re doing well right now and the team’s hot as a pistol, but we don’t want to sacrifice the future.” I I’ll come back to it. Not only were the Red Sox at the trade deadline, I remember talking to Mike Hazen when the they had the World Series run and they fell and he he’s sitting there in the postseason and he of course is the Arizona Diamondbacks uh president baseball operations and he’s sitting there at the at the um in the postseason and he’s like saying, “Boy, I I I didn’t get the arm. I didn’t get the I I we’re we fell short.” And they’re in the middle of it. He’s kicking himself because I wasn’t able to do it. But he said at the same time it was impossible to do. The asking prices were impossible. And that was the same message that you got last year, especially with guys under control. So it’s not what people want to hear, but we have to look at the history of the last couple years about when you go after these guys, what it’s going to cost. And if if you want to do the shock and awe, and I don’t even know what the shock and awe is anymore. The shock and awe is is putting me in a deal. I think they’re not going to put that shocking. Yeah. I don’t think either one of those guys is getting traded. Christian Campbell, we’ve had callers bring up and and people I I wouldn’t do it probably. I mean, not that he’s untradeable, but I just think he was rookie of the month and then clearly kind of fell on. You are really selling low. And you do have him on that what I think could be a team friendly deal. He does strike me as the kind of player that you could trade then two years you’re like, “Oh, yeah. Why’d you trade him?” Like he’s killing it somewhere else. Yeah. But you say team friendly deal, but is it? Well, if he’s good. Yeah. If he’s good, but what if he’s not? I mean, it’s not then. And that’s what I think teams look at is like, yeah, you had that good first month. Do they regret that deal at all? No, I don’t think so because you look not yet. You can’t say that yet because it’s the same thing. We have the conversation when they sign the extensions to with Beo and Raphaela. Everyone was like, why did you do those? No, I was one of those guys. I did one of these guys. Now they’re good. And now it’s like, oh, you’re geniuses. So, good for you. But, so I think it’s just way too early. But I think if you’re going to trade Campbell teams, it’s it’s too risky for a team to say this is a centerpiece of the trade where you have a guy who had one year professional uh excellence or one year professional experience and then he’s good for a month and then he’s really bad and now he’s in triple A just doing okay. Not to say he’s going to be bad, but that’s a pretty big risk. So, but I think that you know I I do think that they are more motivated this trade deadline than we have seen in years. That is my that is the one thing that I can say like people say buyers are selling. No. Well, when you trade Raphael Devers when you did like you better be buyers for sure but then you also can’t be two weeks from now add nothing and be like wow the asking prices were high. Like I don’t think anybody’s gonna be like Danny the Danny A method. Yeah, we were in on everybody. We got nobody not good enough. Not this year, right? I mean, but you look at a a guy like their their last sort of trade deadline where they like, oh my goodness, they look at what they did. Kyle Schwarber, right? Yeah. 21. This the only time they had a winning record in the second round. Remember about Kyle Schwarber? He was hurt. He was hurt. like they got him on a bargain basement and I don’t and they were gonna make him a first baseman and they wanted No, that’s the other thing Billy We’ll teach him first. We’ll teach him first. Like, oh, think about that. How we forget that that like he had even played first. Oh, we’ll just take a first base. And and then like I don’t know if you you have the clip like me talking to Chris Sale but Chris Sale was talking about 2018 when they push it’s like they put the rings on the table and they they when I when I came to Boston they put the rings on the table and they said hey listen we want to win more of these but it’s up to you and if you do your job then we’ll add and sure enough in 2018 you have Steve Pierce early on and Nathan Evaldi early early on but even then Nathan they needed another and you got Nathan Aaldi Nathan who’s killing it as much as everyone screaming and yelling about Joe Ryan. Let’s remember even Dave Drowski couldn’t get that guy. So that’s the danger. Oh, we do. We had that Drosski cut we used to always play where they were asking him about the deadline. How come we didn’t do anything? He goes, “Well, we did add Casher Cer.” We’re like, “What?” Andrew Kashner. Oh, it’s But it’s Yeah, it’s so But if they had a similar conversation this year, not saying that they did with like the rings and everything already, so it’s not like we haven’t done something to help our ball club. It’s not like we haven’t done layoffs. No, but like if if you were doing the same thing this year, the same kind of conversation. You say, “Hey, like you guys got to prove it for us to be buyers.” Like I don’t know, winning 10 straight games would be would be the answer. Rich, Rich, the day after the trade ended in Seattle, you know, when everyone’s like, you know, it’s just one of 26 and all that stuff, right? I heard the the trade deadline mentioned at least five times from players like we have to like prove to them that I mean, and think about that. That was mid June. They all knew what was at stake and that’s what I mean. They were all motivated to this was going to be the first uh checkpoint in terms of it was this a good move was are you going to buy at the trade deadline? Are you worthy of buying at the trade deadline? And right now and I know you can compare it to last year and they were 10 games up at the break or whatever it was, but it feels like there is no room for interpretation here. There is zero room for interpretation. I agree. Yeah. I mean Yeah. So I but I will say this. We mentioned Schwarber. You know who this year’s Kyle Schwarber could be? Marcelosa. Kyle Schwaba. Kyle Oh, that would be good. I’m all about I’m all about That was a huge miss. Oh my goodness. Yeah. Uh Chris Sale. Don’t want him. Okay. I’m just telling you. No, no, I’m just telling you. That’s just my reaction. I don’t want I mean, he threw for the first time yesterday. He’s he might be ready at the end of August and but but he has an option. I’d rather Nathan Evaldi if we’re going to do the let’s grab an old Red Sox. I’ I’d rather than say you know they thought that Nathan Evaldi was that night that before he signed with Texas. They thought they had him. Really? They thought they had Evaldi coming into this year. That would have been good. Well, and you know, okay, he’s up. He’s, you know, he’s on a three-year deal. You have a couple You You have that spot. Yeah. Like Ber will be leaving. You have that spot.

Rob Bradford joins Rich Keefe and Billy Lanni to break down the latest on Joe Ryan to the #redsox — and Boston’s “motivated” trade deadline mindset.

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