If we sign Nick Swisher then I really dont understand what our management's game plan is here...He is going to cost more than the 13 million per that we are handing out like hot dogs at a county fare not to mention the draft pick we will have to give up to sign him.
With Dempster on board we now have 4 number 3 starters (Clay, Lester, Lackey, and Dumpster). Not exactly a winning formula in the AL East and maybe not even in the NL Central. Its like we are overpaying for all these Journeymen to get our payroll back up and justify having the highest ticket prices in the league.
It is the Sox and Yankees fault that teams have to give out 7-10 year contracts for 200 plus million to get the marquee FAs, and by publicly stating they basically won't go over 3 or 4 years on anyone regardless of the situation we wont be decent until either the market adjusts to the Sox and Yankees not overpaying or our minor league players make their way to "the show"..The deal Hamilton got was legit. If you get 3 or 4 years of him hitting .300/40/100/120 over 130 games a season then I think that justifies the 1 or 2 years that he might underperform. Same deal with Greinke...Unless we have something cooking to get a guy like Felix or a Kershaw I just dont see the Sox being good for quite some time. They must be banking completely on Farrell getting Lester turned around, because as it stands this team can't compete with the pitching staff they have.
