we basically already had everyone from last years team under contract (veterans) or team control (the "kids"). i'm not sure what room for "turnover" we had this off season. the most perplexing move to me was actually re-signing the WS MVP. i didnt think we needed to do that and certainly would have rather seen that $$$ spent on pitching (relief). outside of that....i really cannot complain that we didn't trade one of our kids (beni, devi, Xbo, betts, JBj) for RP depth. i am not complaining about the Evo contract either. i thought it was a fair contract.
we certainly couldnt move any of our $$$ contracts outside of Sale (pre re-sign) but he was a keeper on that originally deal.
no one was taking pedroia, price, porcello, castillo, sandoval contracts.