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And it is the chief baseball officer of the Boston Red Sox, Craig Breslo, who joins us this week.

Hey, Craig, good morning.

Good morning. How are you guys doing? We're doing well. Nice to get on the right side of things

with the walk-off win yesterday. It was. It felt like we've seen that game played, I don't know,

25 times this season, and unfortunately we've been on the wrong end of it too many times.

So, you know, I don't want to paper over some of the other problems that we all saw yesterday,

but anytime you have a chance to win a major league game, you need to take advantage of that.

Teams generally have an identity.

And so I wanted to ask you this morning, what would you say this team does well?

Yeah, you know, I think we're struggling with that exact question.

You know, I can tell you what we came out of spring training wanting to do well.

You know, we thought we had a deep lineup that was going to, was going to hit the ball out of the park, but we were going to be able to compete and, you know, in two strike counts and

push runs aboard, we're going to play clean defense. We were very, very deliberate in trying

to improve our defense, especially on the infield. We knew we had a good

defensive outfield. And we thought we were going to pitch, and we thought that starting

pitching, it was going to be a real strength of this team. I think we've seen it in glimpses,

but we haven't gotten the consistent pitching that we had all hoped for. I mean, are you basically just like flummoxed?

I mean, this team was 500 last year and added crochet and Bregman and a legit closer

and are somehow currently much worse.

Yeah, and we are constantly asking questions around what we need to do, what we can do better,

how we create an identity to this team, you know, for every starting pitcher that has shown

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