The Red Sox able to shake off any shock over the Rafael Devers trade and win that game last night.

And we are about to talk about that with Craig Breslow, the chief baseball officer of the Boston Red Sox front office report is brought to you this week by Shaw's and star market perfecting the art of fresh and by

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tooth pulled at one p.m. today would you prefer that or this interview right now?

Can I let you know at the end of it?

Yes, you can.

So I watched intently last night.

You guys answered a lot of questions.

I think best service we can provide this morning is based on talking to the fans

and interacting with them here on this show last couple days,

answer some of their questions.

I think the first one and the most popular one is the timing of this and

why you would do this deal now as opposed to closer to the trade deadline or end of the season

when you may have been able to get more value.

Yeah, very, very fair question. or end of the season when you may have been able to get more value?

Yeah, a very, very fair question.

And, you know, based on the conversations that I had had with San Francisco,

but also some of the conversations that I'd had with other teams felt like this was the right

decision at the right time, knowing that it was not ideal timing, especially coming off

a huge series with New York. But we had to decouple those things and recognize that we were really playing well and

as difficult as it is to do something like this in the middle of that streak still felt like it

was what was best for the organization and, and felt like this was, this was something that we

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