It's time for the front office report with the Red Sox Chief Baseball Officer Craig Breslo.

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Good morning, Craig. How are you?

I am good. Good morning. Quick turnaround from last night to today.

Yeah. Well, I'm sure it's a much easier turnaround given the win in 10 innings.

Magic number down to eight, what are you looking for down the stretch running here as you're preparing, I'm sure, scouting for the playoffs, but wanting to make sure you get in before that happens. Yeah, I think the most important thing that we can do is keep the focus on the day-to-day. You know, you talk in the off-season about building a

roster that's capable of making the postseason and a deep post-season run. And we talk about playing

meaningful games in September. And now that we're in the midst of it, there's a ton of energy

and enthusiasm around the park. It's a fun place to show up at every day. But I think from my perspective, the coaching

staff, the players, it's the focus on what we have to do and how we can execute today to win the

game. And, you know, we do a lot of this, you know, what's a successful season, is just

making the playoffs enough? Where do you stand on? How do you gauge the season when it comes to your role as the baseball

czar for the organization is it just making the playoffs is it you know advancing a series how

do you gauge what would be a successful season for the red sucks yeah i think uh you have to go

back to to our stated goals and you know we we tried to build a roster that we felt could compete for the

division, could make the postseason, and was capable of a deep postseason run. And we can look at

our record today and say our record in 2025 is going to be an improvement relative to 2024,

but that's not what our goals were. So, you know, I think we need to finish strong here.

We need to make the postseason, and, you know, we should prime ourselves for a deep postseason run.

Craig, when you look at finishing strong, you guys ultimately have kind of backed yourself into a corner a little bit because of some of, you know, earlier series that I think, you know,

a lot of us expected you to win.

I think Arizona was one of them.

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