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Red Sox who joins us this morning, Craig Breslo. Hey, Craig. Hey, how's it going? How are you doing?

I am doing well. How about yourself?

Well, we're doing great and back on track a little bit here with the series win at least.

And I know it's a long season.

When you look at this team struggling a little bit of late prior to winning this series.

Do you look, are you more, would you be more concerned with the defense side of things or the offense side of things?

Yeah, you know, I think, I think we are mindful of both.

It's a little bit early, I'd say, to use the word concerns, but there

are definitely some trends that we're seeing, and we want to make sure that we're out in front of.

And I think Alex said it well when he talked about, you know, the team not looking like they

were prepared to play, and that's something that changed over the last couple of days.

You know, I think much, much cleaner games for the last two nights

on both sides of the ball. I think we have to trust the track record of the guys that we have on

defense. They've been good defenders in this league for a really long time. Offense, obviously,

is a little bit more variant, and we need to make sure that we're making good swing decisions,

you know, which is something that we saw improve over the last two nights, look like there was a clear approach

plan. And, you know, we were swinging that pitches in the zone, putting good swings on them

and driving better contact. When you describe it as a team not being prepared, does that mean you need to go back and look

at the way you're doing things in spring training?

I think we always need to look at how we're doing things, but I actually think that in spring

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