Do you think Beckett will sign a contract with a shoulder-protection clause? With that said, if the Sox are somehow able to balance the money and keep our rotation of what it is currently, then that would be amazing. Granted we are going to have some dead weight contracts off of our books (Lowell, Ortiz etc) however I think it might be better to replace those contracts with offensive production rather than more pitching, but that depends highly on what's available and at what cost. I trust the Red Sox staff to make the right decisions though.