Rob Bradford

So, yes.

Yeah, well, first of all, John Henry 0 for 2 in memorable social media clips.

Because if you go back, this is going to take a deep cut back 17 years before where they don't sign Mark DeShera and the Red Sox sweep the Yankees in June after they don't sign Mark DeShera.

And he tweets out, it must be the curse of MT.

And next thing you know, the Yankees are winning the World Series.

And now you have this post saying,

of smoking a cigar, and as you point out, I didn't see the cigar for Adrian Beltre a few years ago.

That's ultimately what it became.

So I do think that, as I said, I do think that this was their plan, but this leads to the problem I have with how they approach things.

You're right.

I mean, you're right about everything with Bregman.

I mean, he was a perfect fit.

He was a perfect fit last year.

This is why they wanted to prioritize him.

But at the same time, the one thing that they had to prove in free agency was that they could win these battles, that they could get into the big game stakes like the Max Freed, the Juan Soto, these other guys, and actually win the guys that they really want.

Because before, the years before the Theo Epstein era, and even after that, if the Red Sox identified a guy they wanted, they were going to get him.

But now things have changed so much that

And I was always skeptical because the way that they've been doing things is they have a model.

They said, this is our model.

This is what we're willing to do and what we're not willing to do.