Your Offseason Plan

[Rdsxmbnt]

Off Pap's performance last year' date=' I would say Pap will not get a big contract here. Bard is waiting in the wings, and the Red Sox are not the type organization to give big money to a closer.[/quote']

 

Keith Foulke?

[TheMino007]

Ortiz hitting 4, now that is a scary thought. 1-3 looks great, but at this stage in his career Ortiz isn't a cleanup hitter, ideally he should be hitting sixth. V-Mart isn't a home run hitting type that should be in the cleanup spot. This team still lacks a true clean up hitter. They missed out last year on Tex, and right now Theo is doing his best to screw up and not land Gonzalez. Looking at the each guy by themselves looks ok 3-7 in lineup listed above are all guys who can hit 20 home runs. When you put it all together, the Sox had problems scoring last year, even with V-Mart, and we saw that in the playoffs. A times this offense was down right horrible. Sure the offense was third in runs scored, but a lot of those runs were garbage runs. The team couldn't hit when it needed to. If you look at this lineup compared to last year, it is signficicantly worse, about 35 home runs and 115 RBI's worse. Scutaro is better than anything we had last year, we have a full year of V-Mart, and Cameron can hit 20 bombs, but the offense as a whole still sucks.

[Emmz]

Garbage runs? 3rd in runs scored is 3rd in runs scored. We were an elite offense, and there's not much you can say about that. I agree that we don't have a true cleanup hitter, though. However, Ortiz is still a much better hitter than he's given credit for. You have to look at his hitting after the absolutely disgustingly bad start he had to the season. That's probably what you get from Ortiz, and probably a return to the 30 HR range.

[Dipre]

Theo is doing his best to screw up and not land Gonzalez.

 

No offense, but you have no idea what you're talking about. Stop making assumptions, since a convincing package was offered to San Diego for Gonzalez, but they want to maximize their return to him by holding on to him, and who could blame them?

 

You can't blame the FO for another team not wanting to trade their best player.

 

If you look at this lineup compared to last year, it is signficicantly worse, about 35 home runs and 115 RBI's worse. Scutaro is better than anything we had last year, we have a full year of V-Mart, and Cameron can hit 20 bombs, but the offense as a whole still sucks.

 

This offense, as constructed right now, is still very much above average. Your saying it sucks denotes both ignorance and the defeatist nature of Red Sox fans who hadn't won a championship in over 80 years. Newsflash: Different FO, different team. All we need is a competent 1B to hold the fort until a better bat is found.

[Dojji]

Konerko or Berkman would be a good short-term fix, as long as their respective teams don't ask the moon. On the whole I'd rather deal with the Chisox since Houston's a lot more likely to be needlessly stubborn about it.

[Dipre]

Konerko or Berkman would be a good short-term fix' date=' as long as their respective teams don't ask the moon. On the whole I'd rather deal with the Chisox since Houston's a lot more likely to be needlessly stubborn about it.[/quote']

 

Anything other than Casey Kotchman, and we're good.

[Emmz]

Kotchman sucks ass. Anything but Kotchman, and I'd prefer NOT to have LaRoche either, as we could definitely do much better than that.