{"id":2063,"date":"2026-06-06T06:33:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T06:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2063"},"modified":"2026-06-06T06:33:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T06:33:28","slug":"brayan-bello-being-demoted-to-triple-a-also-sends-a-message-to-the-rest-of-the-red-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2063","title":{"rendered":"Brayan Bello being demoted to Triple-A also sends a message to the rest of the Red Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<p><span>NEW YORK \u2014 Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow termed it \u201ca really tough decision\u201d to demote righthander Brayan Bello to Triple-A Worcester.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2061\">Trump pardons former congressman convicted of insider trading<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>But was it really?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Going back to last season, including his start in the Wild Card Series against the Yankees, the Sox are 2-11 in the last 13 games when Bello pitched.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>The righthander has a 6.38 ERA in those games and put 127 men on base over 78\u2153 innings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bello gave the Sox little choice but to demote him. It would have been much tougher to explain to the other players why Bello still deserved a spot on the major league roster.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span>Related<span>: <\/span><\/span>Red Sox want Brayan Bello to \u2018fall in love with baseball all over again\u2019 in minors<\/div>\n<p><span>Breslow met with reporters in the visitors\u2019 dugout at Yankee Stadium on Friday afternoon before the Sox beat the Yankees, 5-3. He painted the decision as giving Bello a chance to reset mentally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cOne of the things we asked him to do was fall in love with baseball all over again,\u201d Breslow said. \u201cTo go down, to compete \u2014 he\u2019s going to work hard, we know that \u2014 but to kind of remember why he loved playing this game.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><span>Get Starting Point<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><label>Enter Email<\/label><\/p>\n<div><button>Sign Up<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>That was an unexpected answer, given Breslow\u2019s usual disregard for putting emotion into roster decisions. He also seemed intent on smiling throughout the 12-minute session.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Breslow spoke about Bello being better at handling adversity on the mound, something that has been a season-long issue. Bello was unprofessional at times during Thursday\u2019s 8-2 loss against the Orioles when he allowed six runs in the first inning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s no secret that once things started to go in the wrong direction, they unraveled a little bit,\u201d Breslow said.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span>Related<span>: <\/span><\/span>Dan Shaughnessy: Red Sox are no longer the talk of the town, and other thoughts<\/div>\n<p><span>The same has been true for the Red Sox as a whole this season. They opened the season 2-8 and haven\u2019t come close to .500 since.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In April, Breslow painted his decision to fire Alex Cora and six of his coaches as being necessary to save the season. Nearly six weeks later, not much has changed. At 27-35, the Sox remain in the lower third of the American League.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The trade deadline is not until Aug. 3, but Breslow received the obligatory question about where the Sox stand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2059\">Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner says \u2018Maine had my back.\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHaving a lot of conversations, a lot of discussions. I think it\u2019s been kind of true industry-wide,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are a lot of teams that probably feel pretty similarly to us, that they have confidence in their rosters, but they know they\u2019re not playing as well as they\u2019re capable of.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Only five teams in the AL are over .500, and the wild-card race looks wide open. How does Breslow factor that in with how poorly his team has played?<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span>Related<span>: <\/span><\/span>The Red Sox are in a very different place than when they last played the Yankees in New York<\/div>\n<p><span>\u201cWe need to run our own race. We need to make sure that we get our house in order. We need to play better; we need to win more games,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAt that point, we can kind of figure out where we are relative to the lead. But I think the first thing is to continue to build on the progress that we\u2019ve seen offensively over the last month.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The progress isn\u2019t particularly striking. The Sox were averaging 3.96 runs at the end of April and 4.03 since. Their .740 OPS since May 1 is an improvement, but scoring remains a daily struggle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Friday was a good example. The Sox had five runs through the fifth inning, then their final 13 hitters went in order with two balls out of the infield.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>At some point, it falls on the players to prove they deserve to be supplemented by the deadline. But that surge \u2014 winning eight of ten or taking three series in a row \u2014 hasn\u2019t happened.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI have a lot of confidence in the players that we have,\u201d Breslow said. \u201cI\u2019ve seen the way that they\u2019ve grown together, that they\u2019ve taken to the work. They\u2019re committed to doing everything they can to turn this around in the same way that we are.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Assuming left fielder Roman Anthony returns sometime this month \u2014 and that may be too much of an assumption given his slow progress from a sprained right wrist \u2014 the Sox could further improve. Even Triston Casas \u2014 remember him? \u2014 has started swinging a bat again at the team complex in Florida.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Demoting Bello sent a message that even players signed to long-term contracts can be held accountable. That\u2019s a good place to start. We\u2019ll see where it leads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2057\">These candidates for governor worked for Joe Biden. Some don\u2019t really talk about it though.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given his struggles, it would have been much tougher to explain to the other players why Bello still deserved to be on the roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Brayan Bello being demoted to Triple-A also sends a message to the rest of the Red Sox - Boston Relocation Insider<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2063\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Brayan Bello being demoted to Triple-A also sends a message to the rest of the Red Sox - 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