The Boston Red Sox have won three World Series since he and his partners took over the club in 2002, but John W. Henry believes his club is as strong as ever before.

"I think we're as strong throughout the organization as we've ever been," Henry, principal owner of the Red Sox, told the media on Tuesday.

"Honestly, I would say from my perspective it's never been better," he said. "I saw John [Farrell] and Ben [Cherington] today, and we were saying it's never been better. Yes, we finished last [in 2014]. No doubt about it. Same thing in 2012.

"[But] if you look at 2012 and look at 2014 midway through the season, we play for championships, and midway through those seasons it became clear that wasn't going to happen. So we tore those teams apart. I mean, radically tore those teams apart, and we sacrificed the second half of the season, no doubt, to rebuild. We don't want to do that again. If we had kept those teams together, I doubt we would have finished last either year."