The Boston Red Sox may have made few major moves in recent seasons because rival clubs hate the process of working with them to complete trades. There was hope heading into Thursday’s MLB trade deadline that the Red Sox would make the kind of moves that helped further push them from being pretenders to playoff contenders.

When you talk to GMs around the game, they said it’s very tough to deal with the Red Sox and Craig Breslow in particular.” The post MLB insider claims ‘teams hate dealing with Red Sox,’ ‘very tough’ to make trades with Craig Breslow appeared first on Boston.

Several MLB teams made blockbuster moves at the Trade Deadline this season, but the Boston Red Sox weren't one of them. They did acquire southpaw pitcher Steven Matz (5-2, 3.44 ERA) from the St. Louis Cardinals and right-hander Dustin May (6-7,