For the Boston Red Sox, this offseason devolved from “full throttle” to “pursue trade markets and free agency to have more consistent starting pitching” to “pressing (sic) all levers,” and finally to a payroll that will “probably be lower.” This eventually led to Craig Breslow uttering the following:
“And it’s going to require aggressive player development in the minor leagues and the major leagues so guys that we think are the next wave — [Marcelo] Mayer and [Roman] Anthony and [Kyle] Teel, that group — are not just big leaguers but impact big leaguers.