Sox Free Agency Fodder

We’ll start with the absurd and work our way back to reality.

“Jay is that Jose Canseco?” Yes, yes it is.

There was an article on NESN where they showed a Conseco tweet where he basically was asking for a try out. Canseco who is almost 50 does have good career numbers at Fenway hittiver over .300 and homering every 13 or so at bats. But that was 15 years ago. I think that it’s time to hang up the spikes and leave them hung up. He’s the poster boy for the steroid era and they testing for that and HGH now. No chance.

But on a more serious note, the Sox traded starting shortstop Marco Scuatro to the Rockies on Saturday night. They did it that late to try and get the transaction buried in the Pats dominance of the sports headlines. They also did it to prove that they want to have a different starting shortstop as many years in a row as possible. Right Pokey Reese?

The real reason they made the move was to free up some payroll. The Sox look to be the last few players in the Roy Oswalt and Edwin Jackson sweepstakes. This is after the team brought in Cody Ross to platoon in right field with Ryan Sweeney or be an insurance clause for Crawford coming off surgery.

The team really covets Oswalt. I’m guessing they’re realistic that signing clubhouse cancer Vicente Padilla probably wasn’t their best move. So they’re pressing hard on Oswalt who’s drawn other interest but it appears Boston is the destination. Jackson seems more like a backup plan though reports are out there that he’s got an offer from the team as well. If Both fall through look for the Sox to try and make a deal with the White Sox for Gavin Floyd.

So instead of shaking up the clubhouse as we were all demanding at the end of last season, the team made a series of smaller moves. They didn’t trade any of their chicken eating, beer swilling rotation. They didn’t attempt to move Youk (who by all indications is a cancer in the clubhouse), they let Lackey go to surgery for a year, oh and they’ll likely get Matzucrappa back mid season.

So blockbuster moves, no “ooooooh” moments. Nope, new manager, puppet GM, and Uncle Larry’s running the entire show. At this point, why not bring in Canseco, what’s the worse that could happen?

I’ve said it for a while and will continue to say it, not really excited about this season.