1. Or if Kalish was in Boston, he could have gone crazy, broken into the team plane's cockpit and flown the plane straight into the ground! Hypotheticals!
2. Or Ells could have been hurt even worse in CF since he clearly has the injury bug as you clearly stated.
3. Like the back of his hand??? Does absence make the heart grow fonder. Bay was competent in LF, not exceptional. And like you said, Bay probably would have been injured anyway.
4. Even if they signed Holliday, they still would have picked up Lackey.
5. Of course "now" people think CC was a bad signing. Prior to 2011, the majority of people were clamoring for him to be signed by the Sox.