I hope that rather than commit a lot of money to a high risk/high reward guy like Darvish / Madson, the Sox take a couple low risk/high reward chances, like Joe Saunders. Also, if we could get Andy Sonnanstine on a minor league deal with incentives I'd be intrigued.
Why does everyone have to get so high strung about the Sox not dropping bank on a big name. Do I even need to name off the low risk/high reward guys that have paid off in the last decade? The biggest spenders in baseball last year took chances with Garcia and Colon and look how that paid off.
Keep Bard in the pen and let him close. When it comes down to it he's a power pitcher and he should use Spring Training to get control problems settled rather that stretching out his arm. If he can get those BB's down and the K's up, the Sox have their new Papelbon.