Red Sox president Sam Kennedy is not impressed with his team’s season so far.
During an interview with WEEI on Thursday, Kennedy eviscerated the Red Sox, calling the team’s season “embarrassing and unacceptable”
“There’s no way to sugarcoat it,” Kennedy told WEEI. “It’s been awful, especially when you consider the stated goal of building upon what happened last season. … It’s been incredibly frustrating, and I just want to acknowledge that right at the outset. It’s on all of us. We have to get better.”
The Red Sox entered Thursday sitting at the bottom of the AL East with a 27-39 record, 5½ games behind the final wild card spot.
Throughout Boston’s season-long slump, they fired skipper Alex Cora and four members of his coaching staff in an attempt to create a spark.
Hitting coach Peter Fatse, bench coach Ramon Vazquez, third base coach Kyle Hudson and assistant hitting coach Dillon Lawson were all let go.
Chad Tracy has since taken over as interim manager, but hasn’t been able to incite much change.
With the coaching staff change failing, many have turned to chief baseball officer Craig Breslow as the target of criticism.
Kennedy, however, promised Breslow is “working as hard as anybody in terms of getting things back on track.”
“Look, I fully understand and appreciate questions regarding Craig Breslow and his job security and all that, but the issue of a change there, just to be clear, that’s not even on the table,” Kennedy said.
As the Aug. 3 trade deadline approaches, Kennedy noted that unless the play improves in the next few weeks, the Red Sox will likely look to move on from a few players.
“At the current moment, there are a lot of discussions going on in terms of improvement and how we get this thing back on track, looking at every single area of the roster and player personnel, and Bres(low) and his team are doing that,” Kennedy said.
“But look, let’s be honest, unless things change dramatically, we may have to pivot here from what our initial planning was. It just, it wouldn’t be responsible to do otherwise.”
