From out of left field I just thought of this. Ron Roenicke last season broke the streak of SOX 1st year managers winning the WS, which started in 2004 with Francona.
On the other side of the coin, picking up Andriese and Santana means that Bloom isn't batting 1.000. Marwin isn't anything to write home about, but he is the type of player a team needs when that team has a truckload of relievers.