The Red Sox are maintaining a defiant stance that the players they have — the ones who have gotten them this far — are good enough.

The Red Sox made two trades ahead of Thursday’s trade deadline, but Craig Breslow acknowledged he’d hoped to get a bigger deal done.

After an underwhelming trade deadline that netted the Red Sox two rental pitchers in Steven Matz and Dustin May, chief baseball officer Craig Breslow vowed that the lack of impact acquisitions wasn’t due to a lack of aggressiveness by Boston’s front office.