Good job getting Peavy, but we need a consistent bat to protect Ortiz or he will see very few pitches to hit down the stretch. The guys behind him are a huge drop off in caliber.
The Dodgers have taken a lot of hits in this thread, but right now they look unstoppable. Also, the guys that we dumped on them (AGon, Punto, Crawford) have a higher WAR than our replacements at those positions.
I haven't seen anything very special about his hands or him catching the ball, but he has an absolute cannon of an arm and very accurate. He's better than Holt or Snyder by a mile.
or maybe he wants to stay in Boston but he will end up elsewhere, because he would be foolish not to maximize the best contractual opportunity of his career.
If Napoli gets hot and puts up big power numbers down the stretch, they might re-sign him. If not, he's not worth $13 miilion/year. Carp could get a shot, maybe even Nava.
Bailey has a surgically repaired elbow that was acting up before he had his shoulder surgically repaired. He is likely to end up on the junk heap of broken down pitchers.
To his credit, Ben was very critical of the decisions he made in building the 2012 team. The worst record in 47 years, deserves an F even if his mommy was grading him. He has righted the ship for 2013, but that doesn't mean that 2012 wasn't an utter failure.