The MLB trade deadline is just days away. The Red Sox are trying to get better, but their manager says they're better positioned than they were the last few deadlines.

“I mean, a long day in general,” Hicks told reporters. “But obviously I got fully hot [before the delay] and ran on the field and felt really good to go. Then they pulled the tarp, I came back in, sat for an hour, got hot again, and didn’t really have my legs and didn’t know where the zone was.”