Getty Boston Red Sox insider explains why the team isn't likely to find a trade partner to turn its season around. The Boston Red Sox dropped their midweek series to the Philadelphia Phillies . With that, they lost their fourth out of their last five series and fell to 10.5 games out of first place. This comes since CBO Craig Breslow made the decision to fire longtime manager Alex Cora amid the already slow start. At the time, the argument he made was that the Red Sox still had a chance to win