The Red Sox did not inquire about J.D. Drew's availability following Jacoby Ellsbury's injury, reports WEEI.com's Rob Bradford (on Twitter). Ellsbury subluxed his right shoulder last Friday and there is no timetable for his return. Carl Crawford is also on the disabled list.
Drew, 36, was reportedly "very likely" to retire during the offseason, though no official announcement has been made. He spent the last five seasons in Boston, hitting .264/.370/.455 overall but missing lots of time due to injury. Last year he hit just .222/.315/.302 in 286 plate appearances. The Red Sox are actively exploring the outfield market, but right now they're relying on Cody Ross, Darnell McDonald, Jason Repko, and Ryan Sweeney.
Boston – you can acquire Chone Figgins from Seattle. He can play many different positions, including CF, LF, 3B, and 2B. He can hit leadoff and steal some bases. Former All-Star! Very affordable!
Adrian Beltre says do it!!!
I **knew** this would come up.. That is.. JD Drew’s name after these injuries and you know what? If they are not going to give defensive whiz and no bat Lin a chance? Call up Drew for league minimum and dump McDonald, he has already proven (once again) he cannot hit MLB pitching and is a well below average fielder. At LEAST Drew is a decent fielder and awful hitter, that’s an awful lot better in 1 category than mcDonald.
They really should just stick with Ross and Sweeney every game until CC gets back. No reason to burden the lineup with 2 of McDonald and Repco at once and another thing… Why-O-Why did they waste a roster spot with Nate Spears when they could have called up speedster Ciriaco, who could have been invaluable already as a PR, like yesterday when Spears was brought in to PR for ortiz already?
Some of these roster moves just plain old make no sense.. Thomas kept while Bowden DFA’d.. Just looney.
I like Spears, saw him in Portland some. Dude’s a gamer and can hit a little bit. But otherwise couldn’t agree with you more- what in the name of Pesky are they doing in the front office?
The team prefers retreads for some reason over people with the same talent as these 30+ YO people with less.. Such as mcDonald and Repco.. If they want to go that way and call up guys like that? At least give some one like Hazelbaker a call who can come in and steal some bases and play some “D”, rather than this collection of retreads. There has to be a point of calling it quits when each and every one is a bust and they have 22-25YO kids with the exact same (or better) talent in the system, like Lin already..
Boston did not inquire about JD Drew. They did not inquire about Alex Rios or Vernon Wells either???
Well thank goodness.
Man, you know it’s bad when your best outfielder is Cody Ross. *Cringe*
Seriously, you guys want Marlon Byrd?
Watch a few Boston games and would see how “bad” Ross has done… 2 balls already planted into the parking lot beyond the green monster and he is putting dents in the wall already as well, just like I figured he would well before Boston ever signed him.. Have been hoping they would get this guy ever since Crisp left as a FA so they could have a top notch 4th OF, just because the team has been hammered with injuries and he has been pressed into F/T duty and cannot rotate with Byrd is not his fault and anyway?? Ross at 3m is a far sight better than Byrd at 6.5..
Ross has never had the luxury of playing at an offensive friendly stadium in his career, yet has almost always put up numbers favorably to Byrd, while Byrd has ALWAYS played at extremely hitter friendly places..
Why should they pay Byrd 6.5m, much less give the Cubs anything for him? THAT is why the Cubs are still stuck with him.. He is a poor value for the $$$
I would prefer Boston target Crisp again if they go out and get someone who is a more upper tier player rather than Byrd.
Given that the *least* Byrd’s been worth over the last five years is $6.5MM and that his average annual value has been more like $11.5MM, how precisely is he a poor value?
Sure, his bat might make him good enough for a corner outfield slot in Fenway but his D…
Oh the D….
I never said Cody Ross was bad. I just said he’s currently your best outfielder.
I don’t know that I agree with you that Coco Crisp is a more valuable or better player than Marlon Byrd though. Provided Byrdie turns it around, anyway – he’s off to a rough start this year.
JD Drew is way overrated. He had about 3 really solid seasons in his career, but Boras got him the money.
.278/.384/.489 career line with great defense? laaame
Yes, but he got hurt sometimes and refused to sign when first drafted by the Phillies. So it’s okay to pretend like nothing he did *ON* the field ever happened. Right? RIGHT?
He’s actually pretty underrated by most fans. 125 career OPS+ is pretty great, throw in great RF defense and thats a really, really good player. He had 6 seasons where he had greater than a 130 OPS+ with over 450 at bats. Those are really, really good seasons I really don’t understand where your idea that he only had 3 solid seasons came from.
Only 3 solid seasons using shallow understanding of counting stats, I am betting.
Well, it was Carlos Lee saying that. The man’s made a fortune off of counting stats.
Says Carlos Lee.
Bring him back!
Boras will offer the Sox a special bargain price: 3 years at $28M
bring back Drew. He’s certainly an improvement on Mc Donald and Ross and Repko. I love the guy. Sign him for $1M
resign Drew for small money… certainly better than who they have now.