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And Craig Breslow joins us this morning.

Craig, maybe a little bit unfortunate timing this morning because we are with an unruly crowd of Red Sox fans here.

Let me introduce you to them.

Guys, Craig Breslo, the Chief Baseball Officer of the Boston Red Sox.

Hi.

Good morning, Craig.

Why is Ken tackling people? Good morning, Craig. Good morning, Craig. Good morning. Good morning, Craig. Why is Ken tackling people?

Good morning.

Good morning, Craig.

Good morning.

Appreciate you taking the time, as always.

And you said, I'm going to start with this because you said last night that you went

into the deadline with the mindset that no prospect was off the table and no player was untouchable.

So how is it that Joe Ryan is not on this roster today?

Yeah, you know, while I am not going to get into too much detail about specific pursuits,

everything that I said last night is true.

And, you know, we approach the deadline trying to identify impact additions

that could bolster this team given what we have been able to do on the field thus far

at the position that we're in and the promise of a playoff push and deep postseason run

and we weren't able to line up but in order to add impact players particularly

impact starting pitching we had to take the position that we'd be willing to

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