Granted, he sucks and most people questioned the move when it was made. Was his career light years better in SF? Yup. Should the Sox have expected him to completely flat line when he came to Boston? Nope.
1. No one performs well enough to justify the money they make.
2. He was a 3 win player on average while with the Giants. http://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=5409&position=3B If you're a consistent 3 win guy, you get Pablo's contract.
They brought in Sandoval because they thought had no one in the pipeline that could play 3b in MLB in the near future. The bad decision there was bringing on Hanley and Panda. They should have just grabbed one of those guys and threw them at 3b. I don't think it was a "win now" move. It was a "we don't have anyone to play there" move.
@LouMerloni If your Red Sox story doesn't start with "What was John Farrell thinking" I have no interest reading it. Stop trying to justify it. Horrible
Almost all bullpen arms are inconsistent. I think Barnes, Ross, Kimbrel and Ziegler are perfectly fine. The problem is all 4 of those guys can't pitch every game.
But why try to call me out for it? I made a suggestion before the game that Sandy should hit 5th. He ended up playing well. You saying that I was wrong is quite silly.