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On Mar 30, 2013, at 6:42 PM, Steve Ouellette <[email protected]> wrote: > It's not clear to me that the Sox won't contend this year. They're not going > to win 100 games, but I wouldn't be surprised to win 90 (or 75 for that > matter). Yes, I'd rather have the Rays or the Jays rosters, but I don't see > either as dominant, and I would bet cash money on the Sox being better than > the Yankees and Orioles. > > They should score runs just fine and the bullpen should be very good. The > whole season comes down to whether the starting pitching holds up -- namely > Lester and Buchholz. They've both been very good in the not so distant past, > and they've both been excellent in spring training. If that carries over to > the regular season, they'll be a playoff team. If it doesn't, they're screwed. > > I'm still not buying the John Lackey rebirth though. The quicker we can run > him out of town and bring up Allen Webster, the better. > > Steve O > > > On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Ray Salemi <[email protected]> wrote: >> Question for the assembled. >> >> It's clear that the Red Sox are not going to contend this year. While I >> doubt they will win only 77 games, I don't think they'll break 81 by much. >> >> They have no proven rotation. They have no one in the lineup who hit over >> 30 home runs last year. They are strong up the middle (Salty, Petey, >> Inglasias, Elsbury) but not overly so. They have problems at both corners, >> and at DH. >> >> So here's my question. Was Tom right to complain that the Sox had tossed >> away their talent with no chance of replacing them? Or, was the chemistry >> of that talent so toxic that it wouldn't have made a difference. >> >> I read an article this week in SI about the Rays and their systematic way of >> growing a team. Then I think about the Sox hiring a crazy old Grandpa like >> Bobby Valentine to run their team. I suspect that the Sox would be in a >> similar spot whether or not the did the trade because the trade was not the >> problem. >> >> So was Tom Right? >> >> Ray >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Red Sox Citizens" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/redsoxcitizens?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Red Sox Citizens" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/redsoxcitizens?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Red Sox Citizens" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/redsoxcitizens?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
