Okay, so we got Lackey, Scutaro, Cameron, Hermida, and now Beltre.  We lost Alex Gonzales & even more importantly, Jason Bay.

I’m not sure we’re all that much better off for next season.  I think Scutaro is better than Alex Gonz, so that’s positive.  Surprised that happened, but it seems like they just wanted to switch teams.  Sorry, but as a hitter Cameron is done, fielding?  He’s definitely better than Bay, but Bay’s bat is better.

I’m hopeful that they’ll all hit better in Boston with the Monster only 310 feet away, but I still don’t think we should have dropped money on Beltre when Lowell is a question mark.  Mikey’s a great player, and has been an amazing Red Sock, but even with his injuries and uncertainty, I wouldn’t have made the deal for Beltre.  I would have saved up all my chips and made a play for Adrian Gonzales from San Diego.  Never know, they might do it anyway, using Lowell as a trade piece.

Ideally, I would love to see Youk move to 3rd to make room for Adrian, and have the Sox really start working on this Phenom – Iglesias – to get him ready for the bigs.  Maybe Theo Epstein is working on some midseason trades, who knows.

What it all comes down to is I REALLY don’t believe he’s setting the Red Sox up to compete with the Yankees.  Especially getting Johnson at DH and Granderson to take over in left or center.  They’re going to dominate again next year.  We may make it to the playoffs, but I dunno.

And even tho Lackey’s wife is a total hottie, I still think he’s a bad mouthed, spoiled little brat and I don’t see him p