Intresting as many of you pegged this team for a WS in 2011. Throw in a volatile manager and you just wanted to blow it up? Funny as that wasn't the argument you were making back then. I guess just formulate arguments to pump up whatever the 40 man roster looks like at any given time? Now who's the one just making noise?
If Rubby and Webster flame out and the Sox spend the $ frivolously, then you simply can't call the trade a win for the Sox.
They weren't boxed in. Beckett's deal was going to be up in a little bit. AGon was overpaid, but very productive. The one bad contract (CC) wasn't enough to prevent a big market team like the Sox from bringing in other guys.
1. It still depends on how the Sox spend that money over the next few years
2. And the prospects actually have to perform at the MLB level
If it was just a salary dump and the prospects flamed out, it was a bad deal.
People have been saying that the Yanks are getting old and are going to have a down year for the past 10 years. Until it actually happens, I'm not going to hold out hope.
Since 95, they've missed the playoffs only once.