Bradfo

Every free agency's different.

You signed, I think, pretty early.

So what was sort of... Just take me through it a little bit.

Is that when you're going through the year and congratulations, you had a really, really good year.

You got traded over a really key part of a playoff run.

But did you know, OK, but I do want to start like this is what I want to prioritize heading into the 2026 season?

wanted to get back to but in the moment you're just you know you got to be ready every day to go so it wasn't too much in my mind so you mentioned the race like being the like going to a place like this I've talked to a lot of people about like the race the way you know like the and the the

I don't know if this is a taboo to words, but it's the words that keep coming, the secret sauce, right?

The secret sauce, the secret sauce.

But you probably were interested slash fascinated slash, you know, like, okay, this is a place where I want to see how they do that.

So now I'm going to say the secret sauce.

Tell me if I'm wrong.

Throw your best pitch for a strike one.

When you came over to the Red Sox, we talked about going to different teams, different philosophies and everything else.

Was there anything... I know it was only a couple months that, like, okay, you know, I was able to do this, I was able to do that, they tweaked this or tweaked that.

Whatever you did, it worked, but was there any differences at all?

When I got over to the Red Sox?

know going through each lineup and so i think it was super helpful going in it was just it simplified things for me in a way where i can really trust you know when i'm out on the mound what i need to do i want to talk about a couple guys that you played with who are now over there right and because i find it interesting like anytime you come from a place and you know these guys better than most sonny gray is an interesting guy right he seems to like really

like yourself, really like figuring out pitching.

And then you have Wilson Contreras.