Now that the dust has settled, and I have had time to take it all in, I’m not too upset with what the Red Sox did today. Because the Red Sox screwed up the Lester situation, they had no chose but to trade him and they got something that they desperately needed in exchange for Lester, a right-handed power bat.
At Fenway Park, Cespedes is built to put holes in the Green Monster. He has averaged around 25 home runs or so, in a pitchers park. Put him in Fenway for the majority of the season, his numbers are bound to go up. That is one of the things the outfield was missing this year, power.
Then, they added something else that the offense was missing, someone who drives in a lot of runs. Before this season, Allen Craig has known for being a good RBI guy; they actually called him Mr. RBI in St. Louis. He’s a solid player and people need to look past his injury pledged season this year and see the bigger picture.