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The Boston Red Sox continue to hang on for dear life in the playoff race for both the American League East and a wild card spot.
Entering Monday, the Red Sox were 8 1/2 games behind the New York Yankees for first place, 3 1/2 games out of a wild card spot and three games under .500. Despite all of this, chief baseball officer Craig Breslow told Colin McCarthy of Boston.com he still believes in Alex Cora.
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“Yeah, we have a lot of confidence in Alex’s ability to lead this group, and that doesn’t mean that we don’t have conversations every day about what we might be missing or what more we can do,” Breslow told Boston.com. “We obviously made a commitment to Alex, we’re going to see that through. Right now it’s about making sure that we’re doing everything we can to enable the 26 guys on our roster to help us win as many games as possible.”
The Red Sox certainly came into this season with high expectations after rebuilding the starting rotation around All-Star ace Garrett Crochet. Outside of Crochet and 26-year-old Brayan Bello, Boston’s starting pitching has been a major disappointment.
Breslow went as far as putting his confidence in the entire coaching staff, not just Cora.
“You know, I think it’s easy to point to that and say ‘hey, maybe we need to do something to shake things up or rattle the cage a little bit.’ I’m very mindful of not making a decision irresponsibly or hastily,” Breslow told reporters. “But again, I think at this point we have to question everything we’re doing — I question the work that I’m doing as well. We’re all in this together, I think the solution is going to come from the group that we have.”
The Red Sox enter Monday with a record of 3-7 in their last 10 games. Cora and company will be hopeful that it was just one bad month of baseball, but the schedule doesn’t easier for Boston in June.
Six games against the Yankees with three more against strong teams like the Toronto Blue Jays and Seattle Mariners could be more than enough to make or break the Red Sox’s season.
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