Tom’s Offseason Plan

PREAMBLE

Sox need two decent starting pitchers and one power hitting outfielder.

ARBITRATION-ELIGIBLE PLAYERS

• Miguel Vargas: Tender
• Brenton Doyle: Tender
• Joey Bart: Non-tender
• Huascar Brazobán: Tender
• Jordan Leasure: Non-tender
• Chris Murphy: Non-tender

There are plenty of cheaper back up catchers. Leasure is out for the years, and Murphy stinks

OTHER IMPENDING FREE AGENTS

• Erick Fedde
• Randal Grichuk
• Sean Newcomb

Fedde 2 million one year, Grichek 1.5 million one year, Newcomb $15 million three years

FREE AGENTS

Clay Holmes (5 years $100 million), Foster Griffin (5 years, 50 million), Taylor Ward (2 years $16 million).

TRADES

Trade Davis Martin, Edgar Quero and get the best available left hand reliever at that price

SUMMARY

I'm expecting improvements from most of our rookies, our bullpen will again be strong as those starter candidates not making the 5 man rotation will be in the bullpen (Taylor Hagen, Thorpe, etc.)