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The Boston Red Sox are already making calls around the league on player availability for potential trades, with a preference to add a right-handed batter to their struggling lineup.
Though Boston's lineup needs improvement if the team hopes to make a return to the playoffs this season, it will be interesting to see how things shake out as the MLB trade deadline approaches. The Red Sox sit at the bottom of the AL East at 27-36, but are only a few games out of a wild card spot.
With how poorly this season has gone for Boston, there have been questions about whether the team will be buyers or sellers at the trade deadline. Despite this, Red Sox's chief baseball officer Craig Breslow doesn't believe the team has to "prove their worth" to become buyers at the deadline.
“I don’t think it’s a ‘prove’ type thing,” Breslow said on Friday, per Jen McCaffrey of The Athletic. “I have a lot of confidence in the players that we have. I’ve seen the way that they’ve grown together, that they’ve taken to the work. They’re committed to doing everything they can to turn this around in the same way that we are.
“I think we need to run our own race. We need to make sure that we kind of get our own house in order. We need to play better. We need to win more games, and at that point, we can kind of figure out where we are relative to the league. But I think the first thing is to continue to build on the progress that we’ve seen offensively over the last month, and then make sure that we’re pitching consistently well, and we need to win games for any of this to matter.”
Boston's offense has been performing better as of late, but still ranks among the lowest teams in the league in runs scored and home runs. Though Breslow doesn't believe the Red Sox need to prove their worth to be buyers at the trade deadline, the team will need to prove themselves down the stretch if they want to make the postseason.
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