Real quick post. I am going to write about the Red Sox’s
biggest needs this offseason over the next week or so (hopefully they don’t
sign anybody before my lazy ass gets these posts out). I am not writing these
in order of biggest needs; I think it is clear that pitching is number 1 and
then everything else is more of a want than a big need. I will do a position
per post and in it I will talk about the options on the free agent market,
trade market, and internal options. As a quick preview, here are the positions
of need as I see them (nothing ground breaking, just giving you a heads up):
Starting pitching
Closer
Right Field
Third Base
DH
Bench/Bullpen
You’ll notice short stop and manager are missing. I think
short stop will be perfectly average this year with Marco Scutaro, Jed Lowrie,
Mike Aviles, and (later) Jose Iglesias (does anybody else keep wanting to call
him Julio?) around so this is not a need. For the manager, there are just too
many candidates and we don’t know what the team is looking for or, really, what
even makes a good manager so this would just lead to baseless speculation. I
think a manager has limited effect over a team’s success anyway (unless they tinker
too much cough Ron Washington cough) so I’m not going to waste your time or
mine.
Since I’m still depressed about the September pitching, I’ll
save the starters for last. Just know that you will not read the words "chicken" or "beer" in a post about pitching unless I am comparing the staff to my favorite Budweiser products or Chick Fil A menu items. Time to get over that ridiculousness.
Up first I’ll look at right field. Stay tuned…
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