redsoxdiehard30 wrote:

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Just a gut feeling, but I think Tito will walk away this off-season.

We need to figure out what to do with Youk/Papi, because I don't think we have have both on the team. I love Youk and he's been one of my favorite players for a long time, but he is a DH now. Either sign Papi for 2 years at 10ish million and trade Youk for a SP, or offer Papi arbitration and he'll decline it and let him walk and put Youk at DH for the last year. That opens a hole at 3b, and I don't know how to fill it. Also, who knows how Kevin will respond to never playing the field.

Lackey is gone. The way he stared down Francona, the way he erupted at the media, him sucking something fierce, he just isn't made for Boston and might not be made for major league baseball at this point in his career. Epic failure by Theo.

Crawford sucked this year, but he will be better. He's not Coco Crisp, but he also isn't worth nearly as much as his contract. He needs to work on his swing (duh), and needs to work on his plate discipline (duh), but we knew he was a free swinger when we signed him. He is a good player and will rebound to his career norm.

Pick up Marco's option and make him the starting SS. He had a very good offensive season, and was passable defensively. Jed is too injury prone and hasn't proven to be able to play consistently enough to give him a starting job, but he is the PERFECT super utility infielder, but will have more value to us if he's traded.

Let JR have the RF job out of spring, but let Kalish and him split the starts during the season.

Revamp our bench, keep Aviles, Salty/Lava, Kalish when he's ready, and ?? as our bench.

If we get Clay healthy, we have him and Lester at the top, and Beckett probably regressing again. I think we need to get another SP, but just a solid 3/4 type. We don't need CJ.

Hopefully Doubront helps the bullpen, Rich Hill comes back and helps in the 2nd half, Jenks is a useful piece, and Wheeler repeats his season (sans the injuries). Tazawa and Ace could be the long relievers. I would retain Paps for 2 years at $12 million per.

Theo won't walk away and shouldn't fired because of this terrible ending. I agree with others here that we should hire some people away from TB's scouting department and that should help us loads.