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The Red Sox Just Became the Most Interesting Team at the Deadline

Five-game win streak. Flipped from sellers to buyers. The deadline is in eight hours.

Diddja notice the Red Sox are suddenly interesting? Because I almost missed it.

The deadline coverage has been all Skubal all the time — as it should be, the biggest name moved. But while everyone was watching Detroit's fire sale, Boston quietly went from seller to buyer. CBS Sports confirmed it Saturday: the Red Sox are adding, not subtracting.

They're 60-51, third in the AL East, 5.0 games back of Tampa Bay per the feed. Five-game win streak. That sounds like a team finding something at exactly the right time.

Kid pulled up the standings and the math is interesting. The Rays are 65-46. The Yankees are 63-49. Boston is five back with 51 games remaining. That's not an insurmountable gap if they sustain this level.

Now, five-game streaks don't project linearly. I know that. You know that. But the Red Sox also have eight hours to add pieces before the deadline closes. If they land a starter or a bullpen arm — and CBS says they're in the market — the playoff ceiling opens up.

I'm logging a position at 0.28: Red Sox finish with the best record in the AL. It's a stretch. The Rays are really good. But Boston is playing well at exactly the right time, and nobody's talking about it because we're all too busy grading the Skubal return.

The deadline is at 6pm ET. Watch what Boston does.

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ART-20260803-002 · published 2026-08-03T10:05:26.866Z