ACCOUNTABILITY: Boston Red Sox’s Chad Tracy ADMITS Costly Playoff Decisions & Sonny Gray FALLOUT

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The Red Sox spoke for an hour yesterday in their end-of-season press conference, but three things they said told us a lot about what happens next.

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Hello and welcome to Locked On Red Sox, your daily Boston Red Sox podcast. I'm your host, Gabby Maljanian, and today's episode is brought to you by Kelshi. For a limited time, download Kelshi and use code LOCKEDON to get $25 when you trade $25. Kelshi, trade what's next. Hello, hello. Happy Tuesday. Welcome to the show. The Red Sox end of season press conference was yesterday. And while the season didn't end the way we wanted it to, there were some notable things to take away from this press conference, including... The offense and Craig Breslow acknowledging that the offense wasn't what the Red Sox needed this past season. Can they build an offense fit for Fenway? Wilson Contreras' analytics remarks were brought up in the press conference and Chad Tracy acknowledging his pitching decisions. So lots to talk about related to this press conference and Yesterday was the annual end of season one. Sam Kennedy, Craig Breslow and Chad Tracy were all up there. And let's just be honest. Everybody knows what these press conferences actually are. You're not going to go and get Craig Breslow announcing his offseason targets on October 5th. Sam Kennedy isn't going to go out there and tell you exactly how much money they're going to spend. That just doesn't happen. They just never do. Chad Tracy's not going to sit there and say that every decision he made was wrong, but there were a few moments in this press conference that told us quite a bit. And I'm not going to just sit here and recap the entire press conference because that would be boring, but I do want to talk about what some of the answers actually mean. The most definitive thing that anybody said yesterday came from Chad Tracy. Whatever you think about the decisions he made against the Yankees, he definitely didn't hide from those decisions. And that was notable. Ever since the Red Sox season ended, there's been this question floating around of who actually decided to