Former Red Sox strength and conditioning coach Dave Page doesn't believe the team was prepared to play at a high level this past season. Page was fired on Tuesday and believes he was being made a scapegoat for the team's fitness woes. "The bottom line is we weren't ready to play physically, fundamentally or mentally the way we should have been, like a championship team should have been," Page said during a nearly an interview on WEEI (Boston) on Friday afternoon. Page said that the perception there were players on the team that weren't focused on maintaining their conditioning, particularly in September, was a correct one. Page said there were four players in particular -- one position player, one starting pitcher and two relievers -- whose fitness was deemed unsatisfactory at the end of the season. "We got to the end of the year and we had four guys that we thought didn't make it to that part of the season where we hoped they would be," said Page, who declined to identify the players. "For the most part, most of all of everybody else stayed within range of where we wanted them to be."