💁🏼‍♀️ Marte & Walker are non starters in a trade with the Red Sox. Besides Rafael Devers, The Red Sox haven’t paid or bought a multi-year contract that would take a “position” player past the age of 34 since 2018 and Devers was homegrown (Story has a club option for age 35, so if the club was to pick it up it be since 2022 instead of 2018). This is a team core philosophy. They’re not going to stray from it by paying Ketel Marte $100m+ and then also have to trade Major league players and/or prospects for Marte through age 37. 👎 Breslow may be PBO but he is only one voice that sits at the decision making round table headed by Ownership that deals with decisions like “core philosophy” and this has been in place for the last decade. Breslow has to bring any deal or trade for a player being payed pass the age of 34yr to the table and make his case to get approval to get it done. I’m not saying it can’t be done, but I don’t think he has all the pieces in place to get it pushed through yet. Maybe after he gets the 25yr Murakami signed he will consider sticking his neck out for Marte. It’s also why Breslow was unable to compete for Schwarber & Alonso, once he knew they would be getting deals that took them pass age 34, the team was out. 🤔