They had the bones of a good to great rotation: Lester, Lacket, Beckett, Buchholz
They added some good role players in the offseason that took on outsized importance: Napoli, Gomes, Victorino, Drew
Don't think Sox can accomplish #1.
Prospects that are RHB:
Bleis
Yoeillin
Yorke
Blaze
Allan Castro - switch
Johanfran Garcia
Coffey
Campbell
Anderson
Zanetello
Meidroth
Riemer
Bonaci - switch
While some of the top prospects (Teel, Mayer and Anthony) are LHB, a lot of the bats are RHB.
I think it's fun to dream on Trout, but he's guaranteed to miss 80 games each year at this point with a huge contract.
Duran LF
Rafaela CF
Abreu RF
Is so much better than what they threw out there this year. Then putting Story at SS? That's fixing a s*** ton of problems already.
That ignores Jeter hammering that ball to right, Bernie hitting a liner up the middle and Matsui smoking that ball down the RF line. That was 3 straight hard hit balls before Posada came up.
My logic is that I don't believe this ownership will bring in a better MLB 3b from outside the organization. They may move him off the position at some point, but I don't believe it will be in 2024.