The Boston Red Sox have until Thursday, July 31 at 6 p.m. to bolster their bullpen to make a push for the playoffs.

Craig Breslow has maintained that the Red Sox will add at the trade deadline. If so, how could that look? To discuss the deadline and set up a crucial week for the club, Red Sox beat writer Jen McCaffrey hosted a live Q&A with The Athletic subscribers on Tuesday afternoon. Here are five key questions that were asked and answered during the chat.

“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.”

The Red Sox also assigned catcher Ronaldo Hernández, who they signed to a minor league deal July 17, to Double-A Portland to make room for Tromp. He appeared in four games for Worcester.

Preview the July 29 matchup between the Boston Red Sox and Minnesota Twins with odds over/under, game spread, betting lines and more.

The Boston Red Sox should be looking to make a splash before the trade deadline, if not multiple splashes. Time is already starting to run out, as the deadline

The Athletic released its 10 bold predictions on Tuesday, and has the Red Sox acquiring Yandy Díaz from the Tampa Bay Rays. Díaz would not only fill the first base role, but he’d also be a right-handed bat in a left-handed-heavy Boston lineup. The 33-year-old is batting .283 with 18 home runs, 62 RBI and a .469 slugging percentage.

After electing free agency last week, the 30-year-old backstop agreed to a minor league deal with the Orioles' division rival.

Brooks Lee hit a two-run single off Jordan Hicks in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Minnesota Twins a 5-4 victory over the Boston Red Sox after a 90-minute rain delay.

It feels like everything is on the table, and that means that any number of Red Sox players should be looking over their shoulder right now. Sure, Roman Anthony isn't going anywhere, but here are three notable names that might not be as safe as they think when the deadline dust settles.

Abreu’s clutch hitting has been evident since the season began. On Opening Day in Texas, he tied the game 2-2 with a solo homer in the top of the fifth and then gave Boston a 5-2 lead in the ninth inning with a three-run homer.