On the eve of the trade deadline, a Red Sox player sat on a table inside the visitors' clubhouse in Houston, glancing at his phone and scrolling for news, waiting for some indication of the team's plans. He expressed uncertainty about the front office's plans. Buy? Sell? He was unsure, and no one from the baseball operations department had made the trip to Houston to ease players' concerns. Alone with his thoughts, the player wondered: If the front office dealt away players, how extensive would the teardown be? If they added to the roster, would it be enough to help?
'What the hell are they doing up there?' Making sense of the Boston Red Sox in 2022 and beyond
