True, east...the Red Sox hitters grind away EVERY AB...they'd be tough to pitch to! Hats off to that crew and their mgmt!
brjones, the moves of GMs SHOULD be considered with the benefit of hindsight...that's the world we live in. There's WAY too much subjectivity to do it otherwise. Yet, i believe you are correct that Hendry would have been blistered by Cub fans had he let ARAM walk and/or not signed Soriano etc etc. Of course, that's part of the problem. Fans don't have the kind of baseball saavy or smarts that really good GMs possess...and neither does our GM.