Hitch

Other contending teams have superior hitting lineups. If you're fine with this years Bello at 5 and that depth, I don't know what to say to you.

Last years Bello is absolutely not good enough. Not anywhere close.

I'm not particularly interested in other teams rotations to be honest, a third (maybe higher) of the league is actively not bothering to try and win it would seem. Bello at 5, followed by Houck, Crawford and Oviedo is not good enough for a team looking to get deep into the playoffs, never mind a WS. We have next to no depth. That needs sorting. Especially with the rate of injuries to pitchers.

There's zero chance those three don't get their arbs. Why would you let them walk for that price? Duran will almost certainly get his, too.

I don't know how many teams have a 5th starter with a 10 ERA when starting last year and showed he could only do it out of the bullpen, a 6th who hasn't pitched a start in a year and half, a 7th who hasn't pitched in two years, and 8th who barely pitched for a year either, but that isn't depth, that's a wing and a prayer. Especially as none of us would be really surprised if Crotchet breaks down in Spring Training.

A lot of question marks there. And very little depth.

Agreed. 👍

Either, or. As long as we do one of them.

Yes, as we sadly can't clone him to play RF, SS, and pitch, too. No, just another highly rated pitcher that we no longer have in the minors.

I'd worry about Anthony breaking more often covering that ground out there for half a year. I assume we're keeping Duran in left? Those three worry me right now.

Who are you playing in RF then? Nobody we currently have on the roster would fill me with me confidence. Plus Bennett's replacement will cost serious $$$. We have next to no depth in pitching right now.

I couldn't care less at this point. And am extremely doubtful he'll ever mash again. Send Story, Yoshida and Duran away, even having to swallow huge parts of the contracts for Yoshi and Story. Anthony starting LF. Go get a 3B man with some pop (easier said than done) and move Durbin across to 2B, Arias as our SS, and have Mead DH. C - Adley 1B - Contreras 2B - Durbin SS - Arias 3B - New hitter LF - Anthony CF - Raf RF - Abreu DH - Mead Bench: Wong, Sogard, White, Mona, Romy. I can live with that.

I think a lockout is coming so he'll be starting there 100%. Then up when we finally (hopefully) get the season going.

The problem for me has never been that the Sox don't spend enough. They spend plenty. The problem is, they have not spent well for a long time. We are still feeling the affects of this. We're nearly out of the worst of it. but we still have time to spend poorly again. Adley feels like it could work out a bad extension, but after all we've given away we almost have to extend him.

A step in the right direction maybe, but seeing as we've trade Mookie and Devers, I would say you can rule nothing out.