1. Upgrade the Pitching staff.
2. Upgrade the OF.
3. Upgrade the IF.
4. Upgrade the coaching staff.
5. Upgrade the front office.

Bring back Ozzie.

All the guys they have called up suck or are suffering long-term injuries. There is no reason to believe anymore. They have more holes now than they did this time last year, which is absolutely inexcusable at this stage in what is supposed to be a rebuild.

C- Narvaez - Good
1b- Abreu - Looks like he's breaking down
2b- Moncada - biggest MLB bust in a long time
ss- Anderson - passable
3b- ?
rf- ?
cf- ?
lf- ?

sp- Rodon - good
sp- Lopez - dying
sp- Giolito - dying
sp-?
sp-?

bullpen- will be pretty good

I have no faith that they will keep Eloy healthy. Madrigal cant replace Moncada soon enough, but the Sox are allergic to moving a guy through the system. The pitching cupboard is about bare, only Cease left and after the INCREDIBLE way they handled the Kopech situation I am already resigned to the inevitability of his upcoming surgery(ies?). Robert is a bust. Adolfo and Rutherford can play but you wont see them until 2020 at the earliest because the Sox are philosophically married to the idea of letting guys have major injuries go undiagnosed by the garbage trainers at their affiliates. Collins cant play a position and btw strike out like Moncada.

The Chris Sale trade may go down as one the worst ever. It makes me want to cry.

Collins will never be better than Narvaez already is.

Moncada showed some improvement down the stretch much like Anderson did last year. If he takes that into next year and keeps getting better, I see no reason to lose all hope in him.

Pleasantly surprised in how Anderson improved this year. Started bad but then built on his last year improvement and made another leap. Hopefully this is for real and he doesn't struggle early again next year.

I just cannot see Tim Anderson any higher than a bench player on a championship team....yet alone playing Short stop. Not a fan.

Obviously they have a shit ton lot of work to do. I don't expect them to get everything done in one off season but they have to start filling in the many holes on the roster with long term players. I expect Eloy will be up in April to man one of the corner OF spots and Zack Collins will be up in the summer to catch. I'm hopeful Cease will also be up in the summer. To do list:

1. Release Welington Castillo
2. Find long term 3B
3. Acquire two starting pitchers
4. Acquire 2-3 impact relievers
5. Make a decision about Abreu and Avi. Sign or trade them
6. Delmonico, Davidson and Palka are redundant players. Make a decision on who to keep and who to trade

Rodon crapped the bed his last 3 starts. The shoulder was probably breaking down as it had in 2016 and 2017. Trade him for a 3rd baseman if we can't miraculously sign Machado. Other than that, I wouldn't panic and spend a bunch of money on relievers on a down year. I might even be hoping for a slow start to get rid of Ricky. I can't help but think Kopech was a big blow and championship aspirations were put back to 2021.

Fire Ricky. There has been zero progress in two seasons.

He’s teaching them how to be good losers.

MANY of them already got enough of that from Ventura.

Throw a boatload at Girardi and Machado.