None of this matters if it doesn't fit with the price of players of prospects, the control time, or overall price of the available players. Some people here seem to think other teams have to trade their players to the Red Sox for a just package no matter what, and that's not how it works. Not only that, for the thousandth time, if the players could run the team, they wouldn't need the FO. That appeal to authority fallacy is both tired and incorrect even in this context.