Craig Breslow

got a really strong offensive group we've got a great kind of anchor at the back end of our bullpen and guys like whitlock and others who who stepped up and helped us preserve leads throughout a game uh you know it's not a secret that we'll continue to uh to look for opportunities to improve and add to the infield group um exactly what that looks like i'm not sure right now uh but we're engaged we'll remain engaged and uh you know we look forward to getting to spring and you know the players that we have coming together to put the best roster on it that we possibly can come up with

We had a meeting.

Major League staff was here.

Front office was here.

Largely just to check in on players, you know, to make sure that we would find no surprises come a few weeks, you know, when everybody gets to Fort Myers.

And I think everybody –

understood that Alex and Reagan and their family had a decision to make and they made it and we understand and respect that.

We also have a job to do here and that's put the best roster together that we can and give ourselves every chance to compete for a World Series.

So I think our staff and our players have shown over the last 12 months or so that they are incredibly resilient and they will be again.

The reality is the decision after Alex was not terribly dissimilar to kind of how we proceeded before Alex, which is let's make sure we are aware of every path that exists to improve our team.

And, you know, there's a push and pull at any given time through the offseason.

You know, and then when one of those options obviously became eliminated, you know, when there were narrower options in front of us, you know, we proceeded and we were able to get one over the line.

I do think what I said earlier where these were independent decisions is really important in terms of one decision being a reaction to another.

I think if that were the case, we wouldn't have had conversations with Scott and Ranger dating back months.

Yeah, I think it was like a Tuesday morning into kind of,

evening and then Wednesday morning, you know, felt like there could be something here.

There was a chance that we could line up between, you know, where we thought it would make sense for us in terms of, uh, you know, length and, and commitment, um, and Boston being a desirable destination for, for Ranger.

And it takes both of those things, right?

I never, uh, I never discount the reality that in free agency players have a choice about where they, they want to, um,

where they want to sign, where they want to bring their family, what kind of future they want to hold.