BOSTON -- Sam Kennedy knows there's supposed to be a higher standard of winning with the Red Sox. That expectation wasn't fulfilled in the last three seasons.
Boston went 81-81 in 2024 and failed to qualify for the playoffs for third consecutive year. The team failed to make splashes in the offseason, remained lackluster at the trade deadline and cycled through insufficient depth in a spinning cycle over the course of three seasons.
In that sentiment, the team's president and CEO believes Red Sox ownership needs to do more to help the ballclub and failed to do so in recent years.
"No, we're not there," Kennedy told reporters at Fenway Park. "That's on us. You can phrase it any way you want. When you fall short of your expectations, you can always do more. We feel that obligation and that responsibility each and every year. There was a feeling this year, particularly yesterday in the ballpark, that we don't want this to end."
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Kennedy continued: "In a lot of ways in a season of what could have been. We need to do more. We need to be better in every aspect within our ownership group, within the front office. We're not here to be having press conferences on Sept. 30 or Oct. 1. We're here to be talking about postseason play. That's what we gotta get back to."
The positives of the season came in the development of young MLB players while high-profile prospects strengthened their respective cases to make the big-league club in 2025. Kennedy knows the front office must do its part to supplement that intriguing youth to ensure a postseason push.
"I think the building blocks are there to get back to where we belong," Kennedy added. "That's exactly what we intend to do this offseason."
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