Quentin in left and Crawford in right woulda worked

Sad…RF with absolutely no production.  SD gave up crap to get Quentin…still no depth whatsoever at SP and no RF…Sweeney/McDonald/Aviles/Khalish (injured)…really?  Right handed bat with power was there for the taking and once again Cherington doesn’t get it done….”scared off”, really?  When your giving up fridge minor league prospects, who gives a crap i.e. the Bailey trade….that’s exactly what SD gave CHI for Quentin, your telling me the Sox don’t have some fringe minor league prospects…cmon Ben smarten up. 

It’s only Jan 1st…………relax

It’s only Jan 1st…………relax

The Sox really are not showing commitment here by going on the cheap when they have so many options to put themselves in great shape for 2012. After last years disaster the onus is on their management to do the best they can to put the best team on the field. management has failed so far. If they were pinching pennies, then the Ortiz contract makes no sense, and the could have gotten a good right handed DH bat for far less, enabling them to get a RF with some production numbers. The cost would have been less for both slots than Ortiz and production likely as good or better between those two players.

Quentin sucks and will make $8 million and would force the sox to pay a 40% tax on him.

Go away

Larry I agree–CC in RF works–give Carl 4 months to prepare himself mentally and physically for playing RF. It should work for a Major Leaguer who has played nothing but OF his entire professional life to switch to the other corner. I also have to say for a professional outfielder he played left field very poorly both home or away with the Sox last season.

The alternative, which I have mentioned in other threads, is to trade CC to the Nat’s for Werth and have Werth play right and platoon Lavarnway in left with Sweeney, when he’s not catching and DH’ing. Yes Lavarnway has played the OF–he played approximately 50 games at Yale before he was switched to catcher.

Werth is terrible why would anyone in Boston want him and Quentin has really faded the last 2 years as a player.  Id much rather get a consistent player that can field and throw out there, the Sox have a ton of bats and I think they have done a tremendous job gathering unheard of solid pitchers from HOU and OAK.

We could of kept Quentin in LF an moved Crawford to RF. Why not Crawford could more then handle RF. 

Your a joke along with Zack Jones…stop wasting bandwith and post something meaningful you toolshed.  Otherwise “Go away”…

Now for the other comments…Quentin is well worth $8mil, Drew was a bargain at $15m right???  Granted he was injured this year but still managed 20HR’s, etc…and is not considered a clown in the clubhouse.  I don’t think that list of people I mentioned would hit 20 combined.  Perfect stop gap for a few seasons and wouldn’t break the bank at the same time.  Juding by what SD gave them…we could have stole him.
Now Werth…negative…had his one big year, cashed in, and choked horribly…if it wasn’t for Adam Dunn, Werth would have been the worst FA signing in a long time..actually it will be once it’s all said and done.  Just a KO machine. 
Quentin would have been a major upgrade over that cast of minor leaguers Ben has projected for RF.

Should the Red Sox have traded Anthony Ranaudo and another lower pitching prospect for Carlos Quentin?

Simon Castro, one of the pitching prospects traded for Quentin, ranked No. 57 in 2010 and No. 58 in 2011 in Baseball America’s preseason Top 100 prospect lists. Ranaudo, who is 17 months younger than Castro, ranked No. 67 in 2011.

If Simon Castro is “crap,” what is Anthony Ranaudo?

We needed some depth at TE.  Especially one who can block and catch if needed.