The Rays got Freddy Peralta. The Yankees got Luis García. The Red Sox

have made one trade all deadline and the guy broke his wrist in his

first game.

Boston has won 8 straight series and is playing the best baseball in

the American League — and with 24 hours until the deadline, they still

don't have a shortstop. Big John and Sean Jones break down what's left

to fix before October, joined by special guest Carl Hascall.

LIVE Sunday, August 2 at 6:00 PM ET.

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ON THIS EPISODE

- Eight straight series won and a 21-4 July — the best month in

franchise history by winning percentage

- Every shortstop Boston has called about: Jeremy Peña, Zach Neto,

Elly De La Cruz, CJ Abrams, Otto Lopez

- Why every one of those conversations keeps coming back to the same

prospect

- Skubal to the Dodgers, and why it might actually be good news for

Boston

- All three of us predict the deadline, on the record, before anything

happens

HOSTS

Big John and Sean Jones

SPECIAL GUEST

Carl Hascall (CH) — moderator of the Red Sox Twitter community, former

co-host and coordinating producer of the Cash Considerations podcast.

Follow him: @WhatsUpCH

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THE NUMBERS WE USED

- 21-4 in July (.840) — franchise record for a month of this length

- 6 comeback wins in July through the 21st, tied for most in baseball

- 5.9 runs per game during the 15-game streak, up from 4.0 before it

- Pythagorean record of 61-48 against an actual 59-51

- Team ERA 3.54, 3rd in MLB — home runs 105, 28th

- Playoff odds: 9.4% on June 24, over 70% now

- CJ Abrams: -57 Outs Above Average since 2022, last in the majors

- Elly De La Cruz sprint speed: 28.1 ft/s, down from 30.0 two years ago

SOURCES

Baseball Reference, Baseball Savant, FanGraphs, ESPN, The Athletic,

MassLive, The Boston Globe, MLB.com. Figures pulled August 2, 2026.

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The Red Sox won fifteen straight to tie a franchise record set in 1946, and they did it with one of the five worst offenses in eighty years of Boston baseball. We went through the run differential, the chase rate, the injury list, and six names Craig Breslow could actually call before August 3. Recorded before the streak ended.

Chapters
0:00 Cold open
0:45 Fifteen straight, and what 1946 actually means
9:45 They were always this good: the run differential case
22:45 The offense is still historically bad
33:45 Does Breslow actually buy?
42:45 The shopping list: six names, ranked
56:45 Eleven games to the deadline

Sources: Boston Globe, MLB.com, FanGraphs, Baseball Savant, ESPN, AP. Figures pulled July 20, 2026.

ivot or Persist? Boston's June Reckoning | 64 Deep Ep. 15

The Red Sox are 29-41, dead last in the AL East, and CEO Sam Kennedy just said the team may have to "pivot." So we ask the only question that matters in June: are the Red Sox contenders or pretenders?

This week we dig into the team that's consistently inconsistent — the bats that still aren't hitting, Connelly Early's growing pains, the bright spots keeping the season watchable (Willson Contreras and Ceddanne Rafaela), the prolonged Crochet and Roman Anthony injuries, and the Aroldis Chapman trade question that could define Boston's deadline. Plus the Mickey Gasper underdog story, Jarren Duran trade buzz, and a look at the farm.

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