Comments on: Jed Lowrie could push Marco Scutaro for playing time at shortstop

By: Jeremiah Graves

Jeremiah Graves — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:45:42 +0000

As a Twins fan, this only makes my soul hurt thinking about the Lester/Lowrie/Masterson/Crisp for Santana trade that never happened because Twins’ GM Bill Smith was fixated on making the deal with the Yankees for Hughes and Kennedy.

The Yankees pull the plug. The Red Sox see no reason to unload their system if the Yankees aren’t in play and the Twins have to settle for scraps from the Mets.

Gross.

Since then the Twins have had a rotating door at shortstop and struggled to put together a solid rotation. Ah, what could have been…

By: thinman61

thinman61 — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 17:13:52 +0000

Yeah, this seems to be the only thing us Sox fans have to talk about until pitchers and catchers report next month. Not a bad problem to have.

By: Jack Marshall

Jack Marshall — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 17:01:09 +0000

Who didn’t know this all along? Lowrie was the presumptive ss of the future until his injury issues; the Sox got Scutaro when it looked like Lowrie might never come around; Lowrie was finally healthy late last year, Scutaro was not, and Lowrie looked like he was finally the player the Sox thought he would be.

Duh.