How Red Sox’s Craig Breslow Assessed Aggressive Pitching Market At Winter Meetings

The Boston Red Sox absolutely need to find their next ace this offseason.

It’s not going to be Blake Snell. It’s not going to be Max Fried. It could end up not being Corbin Burnes, either. So, where do the Red Sox go?

Boston faces a pricey market for starters, but that cannot cause the front office to punt on a dire need. The team’s top prospects will arrive in the majors in 2025 with the chance to end a postseason drought. For that to happen, the Red Sox have to get frontline pitching.

Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow dug into what the market demands at this point of the Winter Meetings in Dallas.

“Starting pitching is really valuable,” Breslow told NESN’s Tom Caron on Tuesday evening. “I think teams are realizing that teams are riding starting pitching to a ton of success and deep playoff runs. At this point, I think it’s hard to be surprised. Instead, you just have to commit to the reality that in order to get starting pitching, premium talent, you, at times, have to be a little uncomfortable.”

Breslow understands the frustration of Red Sox Nation after several free-agent whiffs in recent years while he remains committed on delivering on the team’s vocal plans.

“We are working tirelessly to deliver the team that fans deserve,” Breslow added. “We’ll continue to do that from now to Opening Day and beyond. I understand the frustration that many fans have carried for a number of years right now. Our players, our staff and our front office share that frustration and we intend to do everything we can to improve our team.”