The reigning World Series Champion Boston Red Sox currently sit in the cellar of the American League East at 43-52, but general manager Ben Cherington isn't ready to throw in the towel.
Cherington appeared on WEEI's "Dennis & Callahan" on Thursday morning and said that the Red Sox aren’t as bad as their record says. The Boston general manager said that their is still room for improvement and the coming weeks will determine what the team does at the trade deadline.
"We're going to do whatever we feel gives the Red Sox the best chance to be as good as possible as quickly as possible," he said. "And we are not conceding 2014 with that statement.”
"We've put ourselves in this position, so the math is working against us a little bit," he said. "But stranger things have happened. We don't see why we can't win more games than most of the teams ahead of us.”
Cherington took a big part of the blame and believes that he didn't put the team in a position to succeed on offense.
"Our pitching has been good enough to win, we just haven't produced offensively. And as I look at that, I guess what I would say is that I didn't do a good enough job building a complete offense.”
The Red Sox have to play stellar baseball in the second half of the season if they are to contend in the American League. They would have to muster close to .700 baseball if they are to recover the eight game deficit on the second wild card spot and the nine and a half game hole they dug in the AL East.
The Red Sox are rumored to be sellers this trade deadline and have listened to offers for closer Koji Uehara and starter Jon Lester. Pete Abraham of the Boston Globe believes that the team will deal starting pitcher Jake Peavy "at some point" before the trade deadline.
[ESPN]
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