Baseball Rumor

I have pretty much given up on the Red Sox and trade rumors, especially after they have threatened to trade Manny Ramirez for the past few winters but yet have sat tight with him, And being a Yankee fan it is certainly biased to comment on your main rivals speculative moves.
However, I just saw on Yahoo that Boston is in discussions with the Colorado Rockies to aquire Todd Helton. And worse, ESPN is saying that Helton would OK a trade to the Red Sox, so there must be some validity to this. If they are able to pull this off, then kudos to Theo Epstein and company for brining another world class, top of the line offensive player to Fenway. My question is, how many runs do they need to score this year? Replacing Mike Lowell with Todd Helton (the current proposed trade, plus a few relievers) will certainly add more fire power, which either begs the question of how much is too much, or they are hedging against the inevitable JD Drew injury, and are not willing to have the oft-injured outfielder being the only protection for Manny and Big Papi. 

On the flip side, I am in total agreement with Jim Caple, from ESPN.com. a die-hard Red Sox fan that they have joined the Yankees as a co-Evil Empire having out spent every other team in baseball, except the Bronx Bombers. Can you really still hate the devil, if you have yourself become the devil? Odd position that those chaps up in Beantown Here are Caple’s words:

Not convinced the Red Sox have turned into the Yankees? Then consider this. No team has ever paid more money for a world championship than did the 2004 Red Sox (the Yankees have spent more trying to win, but their payroll was a mere $114 million when they won the Series in 2000). Further, when those Red Sox recorded the final out of that World Series, not a single player on the field was homegrown. When the Sox open the 2007 season, they may have just two homegrown players in the lineup, first baseman Kevin Youkilis and second baseman Dustin Pedroia.

The best thing about this story, is that it reminds me that in just a few short weeks, pitchers and catchers will begin to report to camps in Florida and Arizona, and a new glorious season will begin.