MaineSox wrote:DCRi wrote:
To do what they need to do, and stay under the luxury tax, the Sox may have to trade one or more of the expensive players (Becket, Crawford, Youkilis, for example) for less expensive players, probably eating some salary in the process. This probably won't happen. I think it is more likely they pay some luxury tax.
Or sign Buehrle/Jackson/Oswalt and fill the #5 SP, RF, CL, and DH internally.
I'm not sure the Red Sox can fill the #6 spot internally, much less #5. Lester, Beckett, Buchholz... who? Weiland is a reliever, Doubront is a huge question mark, Wakefield is likely gone and/or done... some like Aceves in the rotation, I don't think he can survive in that roll... it looks to me like the Sox need to bring in a minimum of two MLB starters.