Put a fork in the Red Sox

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by dalakhani

Exactly. Lester is going to work his way out of this. Beckett will be fine. Bucholz is right there. They can work out the bottom of the rotation from there.

That being said, to compete in the AL East, you need power. Were they really banking on Beltre and Cameron to deliver it? I think there will be moves coming. The Sox would sooner be average for a year than to break from their plans and grossly overpay at this point.

The yankees have 16 HR's, the Red Sox have 14.

After 12 games is is readily apparent that it is far to early to assume anything. I believe that their offense would be fine...if they stopped giving up so many runs!!! That is their biggest issue. Adding offense is far easier than adding pitching.

Beltre avged 25 HR's from 2006-08 in Seattle
He was famously injured for much of last year
Why wouldnt they expect 20+ HR's from him?
Cameron was signed as a defensive CF. His last 4 year HR totals?
22,21,25,24

Why exactly should they expect less than that? There are 150 games left...