💁🏼‍♀️ Besides Rafael Devers, The Red Sox haven’t paid or bought a multi-year contract that would take a “position” player past the age of 34 since 2018 and Devers was homegrown (Story has a club option for age 35 so if the club was to pick it up it be since 2022 instead of 2018). This is a team core philosophy. They’re not going to stray from it. Breslow may be PBO but he is only one voice that sits at the decision making round table headed by Ownership that deals with decisions like “core philosophy” and this has been in place for the last decade. Breslow has to bring any deal or trade for a player being payed pass the age of 34yr to the table and make his case to get approval to get it done. I’m not saying it can’t be done but I don’t think he has all the pieces in place to get it pushed through yet. This is why Breslow was unable to compete for Schwarber or Alonso. Once he knew teams were willing to go to age 34+, the Red Sox were out. Breslow and the Red Sox will not be trading away players from the active roster and prospects to take on Marte and his remaining $100m+ contract. It’s not how the pipeline has been built. Marte to the Red Sox is “Headline News” created by the media for the uninformed.

Dbacks improve pitching depth, use the $$ they save to sign Bregman.