2011 Boston Red Sox

[adice15]

I'm excited for this year with the trade for Gonzalez and the signing of Crawford, plus the Yankees missing out on Lee.
Go Red Sox!

What do you guys think about trading Papelbon or Ellsbury? Personally, I'd like to keep them for another year, but if we can get a steal for them I'm all for it.

[EnigmaNemesis]

Ellsbury will not be going anywhere this year, nor Papelbon. There is no market for them in arbitration year and coming off injury and down season. Red Sox 99% of the time never sell low.

I do feel Crawford will give Ells that spark, since you got the top two base stealers in the league in the same line up.

And Papelbon will come out with blood. Most guys in the league perform the best with their backs against the wall.

And I love how Max Ramirez just fell in their laps, and they now got Rangers first round pick, and sandwich picks instead of Angel's second for Beltre. So that is 4 first round picks, and Max Ramirez for nothing.

Seems like everything just fell into place. Boy Wonder was right, it was a bridge year, and the man is a damn genius with how it all worked out. Never will doubt him again (even though the A-Gon thing up at the deadline had me nervous, and was the only time I doubted him).

[adice15]

http://sports.espn.go.com/boston/mlb...ory?id=6166841

I hope he gets better in time for opening day. This sucks

[EnigmaNemesis]

Quote: Originally Posted by adice15

http://sports.espn.go.com/boston/mlb...ory?id=6166841 I hope he gets better in time for opening day. This sucks

Well he returned to fine form and pitched solid.

All four starters are pitching very well this Spring. And then there is Dice K

[adice15]

Quote: Originally Posted by EnigmaNemesis

Well he returned to fine form and pitched solid. All four starters are pitching very well this Spring. And then there is Dice K

I can't wait till I get my MLB.TV free trial, I normally never get to watch the spring games. Hopefully there isn't an injury bug going around this year

[cake612]

Gonzalez played today and had a single and a sac fly in his 2 ABs, Ellsbury had a nice game as well. Everything looks good for the lineup to be 100% and ready for a big year. Can't wait for the regular season to start. This will be the most exciting team that I can ever remember. When Pedro was in his prime they never had a good offense or rotation depth and even the world series teams don't look as stacked as this team does on paper.

My only concern right now is Beckett's health, back problems are always worrisome so it's tough to predict what we'll get out of him during the rest of his contract. If he's healthy and can go 180-200 innings they'll be unstoppable since he's basically the number 3 now unless he has a huge bounce back year and becomes an ace again. Even if Lackey gives them basically the same performance that's not bad for a 4 and some combination of Dice-k, Wake and perhaps Doubront later in the season should be more than enough to win the east. I'm always an optimist when it comes to the sox but this year it seems like they might actually live up to my expectations for once.

[EnigmaNemesis]

I am just ecstatic to see Ellsbury and Pedroia knocking the cover off the ball back from injuries.

Looks to be a very fun lineup, and these guys look to enter the season on fire.

[inglip]

I can't wait for this season, I feel really good about our whole lineup. I hope I can resubscribe to MLB.TV tomorrow so I can watch the rest of the preseason.