The July 31 non-wavier trade deadline has passed and the Boston Red Sox didn’t address their biggest need- a top end reliever.
Some might say Dave Dombrowski and the rest of the Boston Red Sox front office failed. Some would say not to change a thing because of the team’s overall performance thus far. Only time will tell, but a big-time 8th inning reliever to get to Craig Kimbrel would surely have been beneficial to the Red Sox’ success the rest of the way.
Though the Sox missed out on premier names like Zach Britton and Brad Hand, they have a dominant reliever of their own within their system currently.