Okay, so as the Red Sox continue to look for traction here, try to gain some momentum in the 2026 season.

And I refuse to believe that they will until they can win multiple series in a row, three out of four, four out of five.

You get the idea.

Baltimore comes into Fenway Park tonight.

We'll see what happens after the Red Sox took two from the Guardians.

But one of the things I want to get to, because I find all this stuff fascinating, I grew up in an age where baseball was relatively simple, home runs, RBI, you know what a player's value was. Do you keep them? Do you trade them, et cetera? Everything now is turned into a stock market, a financial market, and Major League Baseball has complicated the process complicated the process and frankly has brought me

to the stage where i think teams over manage it overthink it put more value on the economic side of it

than they do on the actual baseball side of it so it has become a contest into seeing who can manage

their team the best not to see who can win the world Series. So are the Dodgers spending the most money? Yes. Well, it's easy for them to win. I don't care. They win. That's the point. That's the whole idea. Which brings us to the Red Sox. And a couple of things I want to get to today through some research I've done here over the last couple of weeks, or last week, really.

And I should say when I talk about research, I'm also talking about how the Red Sox run their

organization, whether or not they use scouts in the minor leagues.

They don't, at least above A ball.

That's right.

They do not scout double A and triple A players.

Those evaluations, for the

most part, are made on paper through analytics and through data. So that is really the,

that to me is concerning. And then you add in the fact that, for example, their big league staff

right now is extremely inexperienced not a

single one of the guys who were brought up to replace Alex Cora and the offensive staff had any

sort of experience coaching in the major leagues a few if any of them had experience playing in the major

leagues which is all a convenient way for Craig Breslo to look at them and say,

I played in the big leagues, you didn't, so don't challenge my point of view.

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