If I'm not mistaken, I heard on one of the sports talk radio stations that the Red Sox hit .220 in their last two playoff series (ALCS last year vs the Doofin Rays, ALDS this year).
If that is true, we're back to needing bats in the line up now, but at what cost? Somone metioned trading Clay for a bat or Papelbon for a bat and sticking Bard in as the closer.
If both of those scenarios go down, Bard is untested as a closer and you've just traded away your #3/4 starter and who do you put in his place, Wakefield and his blown out back?
To get you have to give short of throwing money around in the free agent market......
If that is true, we're back to needing bats in the line up now, but at what cost? Somone metioned trading Clay for a bat or Papelbon for a bat and sticking Bard in as the closer.
If both of those scenarios go down, Bard is untested as a closer and you've just traded away your #3/4 starter and who do you put in his place, Wakefield and his blown out back?
To get you have to give short of throwing money around in the free agent market......