The Red Sox still have a logjam of outfielders after keeping everyone including Duran and Abreu, despite Duran’s name being floated in numerous trade rumors. They failed to get an impact starter, didn’t acquire a bat and didn’t address the hole at first base, but Breslow remains confident with the team he has.

It appears Joe Ryan was not traded on Thursday, despite seemingly everyone else on the roster leaving Minnesota. Fox Sports originally sent out the trade, but then later deleted the post. Yahoo then posted the news and gave Jon Morosi the credit. The trade did not get done, and working on what went wrong with this deal.

The Red Sox occupy the second wild-card spot and sit just five games back of the Blue Jays in the AL East, putting them in a solid spot to reach the playoffs for the first time since 2021. Coming into the deadline, the Red Sox wanted to address two areas — first base and starting pitching.