2015 Boston "Mo's hit dogs" Red Sox

[Halladay_is_God]

Boston enters the 2015 season with another young team that got a year older, no real improvements were made but some players got better and are expected to do better too.

Ervin Santana and David Bush were traded to the AL West, once were teammates are now rivals. Coming to Boston are two prospects, SP John Lundeen and CF Marty Morales, who will hopefully help the team is coming seasons.

Jimmy Rollins, Ian Bladergroen, Brian Fuentes and Dustin Moseley left for Free Agency.

No real standout prospects are making the jump to the big league this season unlike last season. Only prospect that might make the jump this season is MR Justin "Crimewave" Rabinowitz.

Made a few small Free Agent signings, SS Ronny Cedeno, MR Eric Hurley, MR Wenceslao Santacruz, and MR Ben Sheets, with a couple of others in AAA.

Lineup vs RHP+DH (not much will change for LHP)
1. LF Thomas Highsmith - 8-10-3-8-8
2. RF Dale Sullivan - 10-10-6-5-7
3. CF Kelly Johnson - 7-8-8-9-6
4. 2B Todd Walker Jr. -7-10-8-5-6
5. DH Arthur Depuy - 6-7-8-5-8
6. 1B Andrew Bernabe - 8-9-5-5-8
7. 3B Luis Cintron - 8-6-7-10-9
8. SS Ronny Cedeno - 7-8-6-6-7
9. C Michael Napoli - 6-7-7-8-5

Starting Rotation
1. R Wenceslao Santacruz -7-8-8
2. R Basilio Baez - 7-8-8
3. L Fabian Cashman - 7-8-7
4. R Ben Sheets - 8-6-7
5. R Joseph Orozco - 5-7-7

Mopup Relief
1. R Donald Meas - 5-9-7

Middle Relief
1. R George Dupree - 6-7-10
2. L Todd Erdman - 7-6-8
3. R Anderson Casares 7-8-6
4. L Neal Cotts - 8-7-7

Setup
1. R Eric Hurley - 8-8-6

Closer
1. R Jose Capellan - 10-9-6


Outlook:
Another bottom 5 finish is likely, things can only go up after that, building a strong farm system with SP as it's core (four 5.0 star spects after the draft is added).

My payroll is getting lower and lower, likely to be under 35 million this season, now that Bush is gone, and there's even more salary coming off the books next season and that will be just over 20 million.

Areas that need to fix long-term is C and MR.

[Porter]

You know its going to be a bad year when Santacruz is your ace.