Then why were they so bad before the trade? They were in last place weren't they?

Do teams with talent ever find themselves in bad positions early?

Of course. Look at Green Bay right now. But Boston's management clearly felt like they had to do that trade, and they were widely applauded for doing so. That makes me think Theo left them in bad shape.

Ok.

You have some strange baseball thoughts.

How so? People that know much more about baseball than I do said that was a great trade. Almost nobody said it was a bad trade. And it was a house-cleaning trade. My logical conclusion from that is that Boston had to clean house. What's your confusion?

So was it a good trade or bad? You're saying it was unnecessary. I haven't heard that much. Everybody seemed to agree that they had a ton of bad money that was hindering them from making moves. Isn't that exactly what you're mad at Hendry for?

They had a couple MVP's and several all stars. that's nothing compared to the shit that Hendry pulled. He left them with one questionable all star at short and nothing else anywhere at all, except MAYBE Barney who somehow played, in my opinion, way over his head this season. JORR might say Soriano played up to his contract this year too... well, that's one year out of 5.