Outside the Box

The Providence Journal - Art's Notebook (Dec. 8, 2000)

(And one more quick aside: All we hear -- in certain circles, at least -- is how badly the bumbling Red Sox compare to the innovative geniuses in the Bronx. Well, suppose the Sox had traded four prospects, including Drew Henson and Jackson Melian, for a pitcher who went 7-7 with a 5.81 ERA, couldn't be trusted [in the opinion of the manager] to be placed in the postseason rotation, and then left via free agency at the end of the year? The outcry would make the words "Bagwell" and "Andersen" forgotten names in Red Sox lore. And yet do you hear anything --and I mean anything -- about this?)

If there is a better baseball writer than Art Martone out there, I haven't read him. Somebody pay this guy a truckload of money to write a book on Red Sox managers, GM's, whatever.