Red Sox’s Craig Breslow reveals expectations for winter meetings | Sporting News

The Boston Red Sox entered this offseason with some pretty clear needs, but they haven’t done much in just over a month’s time.

Boston has signed a pair of relievers (Justin Wilson and Aroldis Chapman) and protected two prospects from the Rule 5 draft, but not much else has happened.

Now, with the winter meetings coming up, the team is expected to make some moves over the next week or so. With that, Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow made his expectations clear.

“One thing I’ve learned in 12 months is not to enter the winter meetings with a shopping list,” Breslow said (via. MassLive), “and expect that, in three or four days, you’re going to work through the entirety of it. But I think we have a pretty fair understanding of our needs. It’s just so difficult to predict timing because we alone can’t force a decision — whether in conversation with other teams around trades, or with free agents.

“We’ve done a good job canvassing what the markets look like, but we need to move from this idea of talking about things to actually executing them.”

It’s tough for any move to come together that quickly, but Breslow and his team should be aggressive because they could lose out on intriguing options that could help them make a push for the postseason in 2025.

Now that he’s familiar with how everything goes, Breslow should be in a position to just that.

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