Boston Red Sox Chief Baseball Officer Craig Breslow vowed to focus on winning in 2025 this past spring, but his moves at the trade deadline didn’t match that goal. (Photo by Mike Carlson/MLB Photos via Getty Images)MLB Photos via Getty Images
*You can argue, if you wish, that the asking prices were unreasonably high at baseball’s trading deadline. Or you can, as some Red Sox officials did, insist that “It takes two to tangle,” and try as they might, the Sox couldn’t find a dance partner.
But how is it, that among all the contending teams in the American League, the Red Sox improved the least? Was there an industry-wide conspiracy to prevent them for upgrading for the final two months of the season?
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