[Cotillo] Breslow’s answer to the Bregman leaving: “Any time you are active in trying to bring a player in, it’s disappointing to lose out. We do this job because we are competitive and we want to deliver a championship to our fans, and falling short in a pursuit is an obstacle to that.”

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  1. Other Breslow answers:

    Q: Did the Red Sox approach Bregman about a contract extension during the regular season? Looking back, do you wish there was more urgency to get something done then?

    Breslow’s A: I don’t think it’s productive at this point to get into the details of past conversations

    Q: Knowing now that you won’t have Bregman past the one year, do you view the chain of events around Rafael Devers and the eventual trade that sent him to the Giants differently? What would your reaction be if someone told you in February that neither Bregman nor Devers would be on the roster in 11 months?

    Breslow’s A: Rather than spend a ton of time on the particulars of these cases, what is most important is 1) how we respond to improve our roster in the near term and 2) how I can learn from the experiences and allow that to inform how I approach the role going forward. Neither outcome we face right now is ideal, but both will be evaluated over a longer time horizon

  2. I wish this dude just never talked. He says so many words that just mean absolutely nothing. Its beyond maddening.

  4. Every breslow quote sounds like if you told chatGPT to pretend to be a disappointed GM

  6. You know, in a lot of cases I tend to give Breslow the benefit of the doubt in his public responses to his missteps as a GM because there’s often nothing much to say other than “we didn’t offer more than another team did” or “we didn’t align on a trade,” etc. But this feels different. Would have liked him to be more candid about the refusal to offer a no trade clause, whether or not they had a chance to increase their offer, and to be honest about the reticence to sign a FA over the age of 30 among other things. Pretty annoyed with this question dodging and lack of accountability.

  8. I guarantee you every other GM in the game hates this prick and won’t deal with him (except Chaim).

  12. But . . . but . . . but . . . we’re going to sign some infielder the Rockies DFA’d because he has ‘tantalizing advanced metrics’”!

    WOOOO!!!

  16. Word salad. That’s all it is.

    I just want someone to leak that JH is telling Breslow “shut it down if they refuse this offer”.

  17. Caption this photo: What joke are they laughing at?

    “We want to deliver a championship to our fans”

  19. for once he could just say, I dunno,

    “this sucks, and it’s my fault”

    for example.

  23. I just want them to get good free agents. Why can’t they do it? Maddening to be a Red Sox fan. They should shut the f up with the bs political speech and let their actions do the talking. If the were competitive they could w beat the cubs offer. It’s not like it was insanely more than anyone thought he would get. Give the guy a no trade clause!! They act like no one else is competing to get the guy?? Such bs

  25. Breslow was an assistant to Jed Hoyer, President of the Cubs. Hoyer went to Chicago with some guy named Theo Epstein.

    They’re all really smart guys.

  29. >Any time you are active

    You’re not active. Not with John Henry controlling the purse strings.

    >We do this job because we are competitive

    You are not, in fact, competitive.

    >and we want to deliver a championship to our fans

    Do you ‘want’ to win a championship? Sure, probably. Who doesn’t? But that is not your priority. As evidenced by the era of severe austerity.

    >and falling short in a pursuit is an obstacle to that.

    You’re not “falling short”. That would be if you made real, best-in-market offers to elite free agents, and they still chose to go elsewhere for whatever reason. No, you’re not “falling short”, you’re achieving **exactly** according to your financial approach. You’re getting no results because you’re spending no money.

    You are not serious people. The Red Sox are not a serious organization. Stop trying to weasel your way around your prioritization of money over titles and/or title contention.

  30. He’s gotten good at giving the “we tried but things just didn’t work out” speech.

  32. “We lost our best free agent chance, here’s what it taught me about b2b sales in the modern market”

  36. I wouldn’t be surprised if his “model” also spat out these horrible answers for him.

  37. Why does anyone want to interview him, ever?

    Nothing but evasiveness and non-answers. You leave any interview with him dumber than when you started.

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