oldtimefamilybaseball:

“Looking at our payroll, we thought, hey, why not put only eight men on the field. I mean, how many hits a game really do go to the shortstop? That many? Oh, shoot.” - Red Sox GM Ben Cherington after trading Marco Scutaro to the Rockies for groundballer Clayton Mortensen*.

It’s a position the…

Very good read & analysis. I’d like to think the Sox are going to definitely use the spare change to bring in Oswalt. Which, in the grand scheme of things, whoop-de-friggin-do when you have a trio of SS candidates who, if you combined them all together, might make for a solid player.

Or Ben Cerington is about to make his first Big Boy move and take Hanley Ramirez off the Marlins hands? Maybe a Youk, Iglesias, & Ranaudo offer?(I’m sorry for a ridiculous trade proposal post, but it’s the middle of January and Boston is collecting pitchers who, on their days off, may have to fill in at short by June 1st…)