How Stupid Is Tony DeMarco?
Boston Red Sox: For all the rumors and potential deals mentioned on ESPN in the last week — involving everybody from Andruw Jones to Coco Crisp to Julio Lugo to Mike Lowell — the Red Sox came away with zip. In light of the Yankees’ deals for Bobby Abreu, Cory Lidle and Craig Wilson at the cost of nothing important, the Red Sox still need another starting pitcher, and a veteran reliever and still wouldn’t mind dumping Crisp, whom they overrated in last year’s deal.
There still is work to be done here. The question is, can they get it done in the waivers-required trading period.
Grade: Incomplete.
Need I really say more?
For the record Crisp went 2-4 and scored a run. And if you watched the game you realized how valuable Lowell is at the 3-bag. As much as I think the Sox can be improved, I’m very glad they didn’t move Coco or Lowell, as I think they can’t still have a very serious impact in the last couple of months.
Wells wasn’t entirely a dissappointment because the Sox won. Getting the jitters out after not throwing in a game for a couple of months might help with Boomer’s next stop: I hope 