Red Sox president Sam Kennedy acknowledged the "low point" in Boston's season during an interview on WEEI on Thursday.
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During an appearance on WEEI’s “The Greg Hill Show”, Red Sox president Sam Kennedy acknowledged the team’s unenviable position in what is already a cutthroat Wild-Card race.
“It is a tough, tough blow,” Kennedy said of Boston’s recent slide. “We’re just not pitching. We don’t have the depth right now, and we saw it manifest itself the other night. When you’re really thin with your starting pitching, and you don’t have starters that you need to go deep, and you’ve got 15 games in a row against the class of baseball, it just was not a good recipe.
“We’ve had a really brutal August. I think we’re 13-15. So, look, it does feel like the low point. The odds are stacked against us. But no one’s giving up. Until our playoff odds are zero, I think that the clubhouse, our players, Alex Cora, the staff — they’re going to grind to try and get back in this thing here. We’ve got 28 games to go, so let’s jump onboard and see what we can do over the next four or five weeks.”
Given Boston’s struggles with depth, especially in regards to pitching, Kennedy was asked if there are any regrets over Chaim Bloom and the organization’s decision to
largely stand pat at the trade deadline and not bolster a tiring bullpen and banged-up rotation.
“I think it’s natural to question and to look back and examine everything, but it’s not appropriate for us now — for those of us in the front office who are accountable for these things, starting with me and our whole organization. We’re a team,” Kennedy said. “Others can look back and question and pick apart, but for us, we’ve got to focus on what’s in front of us the four weeks in front of us and staying positive and trying to get back in this thing, regardless of moves that were made or not made.”
