Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow appeared on WEEI’s The Greg Hill Show on Thursday.
Host Greg Hill asked Breslow if the Red Sox would be buyers or sellers if the trade deadline was today.
Boston (40-42) will return to Fenway Park on Friday after going 3-6 on their West Coast road trip through Seattle, San Francisco and Anaheim.
Their poor road trip performance comes after trading slugger Rafael Devers to the Giants right before their flight took off for Seattle on June 15.
“We would be looking to improve our team,” Breslow told the morning show. “We would be looking to improve our team for 2025. Because despite the fact that we haven’t been able to string together the consistent performance that we think we’re capable of, we’re still very much staring down a Wild Card chance. And nobody has really run away with the AL East. So as we start to get healthy and we start to look externally about ways that can improve the team, we think we’ve got a good chance to make a deep postseason run.”
The Red Sox’ odds to make the playoffs stand at 17.2% as of Thursday, per Fangraphs. They have a 15.7% chance of a Wild Card berth and 1.5% chance of winning the AL East, per the site.
The Red Sox are only 2 ½ games behind the Mariners for the third and final AL Wild Card spot. But they also have three other teams — the Guardians, Angels and Rangers — ahead of them.
The Rays, Blue Jays and Mariners own the three Wild Card spots right now.
Boston is in fourth place in the AL East standings, seven games behind the first-place Yankees, six games behind the second-place Rays and 3 ½ games behind the third-place Blue Jays.