#RedSox SAN DIEGO -- Clearly, its an unpopular sentiment in the week that Jon Lester takes up residency in Wrigley Field, but may we offer an alternative narrative to the Sox owners are idiots storyline? How about this one: The Boston Red Sox were willing once again to risk the wrath of their fan base -- as they did most famously in 2004 when they traded Nomar Garciaparra three months before winning their first World Series -- because they have a pretty good idea of how to build a winning baseball team. In the span of four months, the Sox have added a gifted Cuban center fielder, one of the top right-handed bats in the game and an All-Star third baseman and great October performer, and they will go into 2015 with five veteran starting pitchers, none of whom are older than 30 years old. And an ace to stick on the top of that rotation is within their grasp. Would this all look better if they had kept Lester, too? Of course. But while no Sox player in recent history (ever?) stayed above the fray of free agency any better than Lester, who even after agreeing with the Cubs spent hours exchanging tweets with disconsolate Sox fans, there are some debatable assumptions being made about how the Sox bollixed negotiations.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 14:18:51 +0000
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