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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
What you are saying has no bearing on winning or losing games. Fear? C'mon who is feared? Pujols maybe? Where were they finding "feared" guys?
Drew has been terrible but he has a untradable contract and they are going to have to deal with him for another year regardless. Cameron is a placeholder with power as is Beltre. Beltre is signed to a 1 year deal and Cameron a 2 year deal. They have three 4 star or better OF prospects (though one had brain surgery recently an will be out for awhile).
They made a commitment to pitchers Lackey and Beckett and signed 2 defensive players with acceptable power to short term contracts. Over the course of 162 games things even out. Victor martinez is hitting something like .215. Youkilis is hitting .235. Lester has an era of 8.44.
As for the Red Sox needing 30 HR guys in the OF?? In 2007 when they won the WS and 96 games the starting OF's had 37 HR's.....combined.
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I definitely haven't "put a fork in them" but regardless, in my opinion, they need another bat in the lineup. No team has won the world series without a 30 hr hitter in the lineup since the '99 yankees and i don't think you would confuse this red sox team with them.
We will see. I figured that they would have issues at the plate before the season started and it looks like thats true.