Playing nine innings while thinking those early extensions for Ceddanne Rafaela and Brayan Bello look pretty good right now …
1. Beginning in spring training, we’ve spent so much time this Red Sox season parsing the various ways chief baseball officer Craig Breslow bungled the Rafael Devers situation that it’s led to overlooking a bunch of things he got right.
I realized this Monday when I made my weekly appearance on a Maine sports radio show I’ve been going on for more than a decade. For the second week in a row, the first question the hosts asked was whether Breslow’s job would be in jeopardy if the Red Sox do nothing to aid the roster at the trade deadline and flounder in the second half.