Craig Breslow

Sure.

Certainly some complicated layers to this, given the no trade protection that he had rightfully earned.

And so, you know, as,

We were going back and forth with, as I was going back and forth with Haim, you know, we're trying to figure the right approach to this.

And I think everyone has their preferences.

And, you know, obviously I would defer to him because Sonny was his player, you know, about exactly the right time.

But, you know, I think that,

there were conversations about potential trades probably early on in the off season.

I think those were made pretty public by, by Hyman, the players, um, you know, I think wasn't, what wasn't so public was interest in coming to a specific market.

Um, you know, so there, there was always the chance that, that this could go sideways at some point, but fortunately, like I had said earlier, um, you know, Sonny was excited about the opportunity to come to Boston.

That was, that was obviously the first question that he asked, you know, is, is what is the team?

I don't need to know all the details, but what's the team.

Um, and, uh,

you know, the response was overwhelming excitement.

Sure.

You know, we gave up two exciting pitchers with significant control.

That's kind of the tradeoff when you're trying to pull forward wins.

You know, and we've talked for a while now about how we're kind of in this window where we need to compete and we need to compete for the division.

We need to compete for a deep postseason run.

And that's the cost of doing business.