Not sure if you have heard, but Red Sox center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury is a member of the Yankees now. Ellsbury might not have repeated his monstrous 2011 in 2013, but he had a great year and set his miserable 2012 mostly within the rear view mirror. We might dispute how good Ellsbury is, but he's pretty clearly good. Boston did attempt to re-sign Ellsbury, however the Yankees offered more. Thats the way it works, and good for Ellsbury.
The value of Ellsbury and his put on Yankees side of thing continues to be covered, but I wish to appreciate everyday the way the decision to sign Shane Victorino during the 2012-2013 off-season looks even better now for the Red Sox considering Ellsburys departure.
A post like this invites accusations of easy pickings given how things worked out for the Red Sox in 2013. Still, though it may be difficult to remember within the afterglow around the globe Series, when the Red Sox signed Victorino for three many $39 million last December, it had been panned by many writers (as were a lot of Bostons moves). It would be overkill to choose on specific people, especially given 20/20 hindsight. Instead, lets just focus on a few of the specific i sues critics focused on in December 2012: Victorinos down 2012 season (and his age), his big platoon split, and Clay Harbor Jersey the apparent center field redundancy with Jacoby Ellsbury.
Most of these i sues were simple enough to consider through at that time (even if critics from the deal weren't nece sarily convinced). One do not need to have had the ability to predict how a market for free agents has become more expensive this season (three years and $39 million for a player coming off one one somewhat bad year seems similar to peanuts now) to warrant the deal. Even when Victorinos 2012 was especially poor (an exaggeration, it seems to me), it had been only one season with a prior history of being better, so he must have been likely to bounce back to staying at least decent in 2013, even at 32 years of age. The priority about his platoon split was rendered somewhat irrelevant when he (temporarily, it appears) gave up switch-hitting as a result of a personal injury. Even if he had not, the platoon worry was always overblown.
All of this was pretty apparent, but one final aspect is of particular interest today. When they brought Victorino aboard, the Red Sox appeared to be signing a center fielder once they already had one in Ellsbury. Some critics thought this only made sense when the Red Sox designed a further move by trading Ellsbury, who at the time had twelve months left on his deal. Some thought that Victorinos bat wouldn't play in a corner. The Red Sox didn't move Ellsbury, Manti Teo Jersey and while, yes, we have the advantage of hindsight, it exercised well. Yes, Victorino did hit better than most expected, but even if he'd only regre sed to around league average, it shouldn't everything surprising when Victorinos excellent glove (both based on defensive metrics and the Gold Glove Award) allowed him to become a big cause of Bostons run. Victorino had generally been a good center fielder, including using a good arm, so the transition wasn't all that surprising.
Beyond the 2013 triumph, signing Victorino had longer-term benefits. The Red Sox needed outfielders, not only to 2013, but beyond. Although the outlook on Ellsburys future prior to 2013 was diverse from it is now, something was exactly the same then because it was this off-season: It was not even close to clear whether that future lay with the Red Sox. As the Red Sox did have Jackie Bradley in route, and had a minimum of some kind of temporary mixture of Jonny Gomes and Daniel Nava all that was not even close to rea suring (likewise the subsequent acquisition of Mike Carp). Ryan Kalish was around the periphery, but he never proved to be healthy, either then or now (and now he's from a job altogether). Prospects are valuable, but far from sure bets, as Kalish so aptly demonstrates. Gomes, Nava, and Carp became valuable contributors Trey Hendrickson Jersey this year, however they were hardly a long-term plan. Whether or not the Red Sox thought they could bring Ellsbury (something of the mystery prior to 2013) back in 2014, they would still be relying on a group of not-terribly-young part timers and Bradley to fill two outfield spots.
With Victorino aboard, however, the Red Sox had a huge role filled both in 2013 and beyond. As noted above, for 2013, Victorino might be likely to hold utterly field, and also play center in case Ellsbury got hurt. Having plus defense both in center and right also mitigated the problem of having, say, Gomes getting significant amount of time in the outfield. You don't have to go on in more detail about 2013.
The Victorino contract, however, makes much more sense now that Ellsbury has left. At the moment, Bradley appears to be lined up to the be starting center fielder in 2014, with Victorino returning in right field. If Bradley gets hurt or must be sent down, the Red Sox have Victorino to take in center field. If Bradley does well, they still have two center fielders out there, not just providing good defense, but enabling one to have a day off as he needs it. This will be significant because it also allows the Red Sox to put Gomes, Nava, and Carp (none who you might need to see in center field) around in suitable platoon or bench roles. (The team might also make further moves that changes the bench situation, obviously.)
This isn't to say the Victorino deal was only smart if Boston thought Ellsbury could leave. Again, Bradley was (and it is) no sure thing. Even if he did succeed, Bradley could still be a good thing in left similarly to center fielder Victorino becoming an a set in right. Perhaps the Red Sox would not had the roster room to keep all three of Gomes, Nava and Carp, but with both Nava and Carp in their cost-controlled seasons, one or both might have been traded or non-tendered to create space.
Although you will find obvious differences, the departure of Ellsbury makes the Victorino signing look even better in a way like the way Albert Pujols leaving St. Louis showed the Matt Holliday contract to be Alvin Kamara Jersey a smart move. Yes, both teams could po sibly have been better, a minimum of in the short term, when they had been able to keep Pujols/Ellsbury. However, before either player reached free agency, the teams knew the players were prone to require more money compared to what they were prepared to pay in free agency. The Cardinals and Red Sox both made other signings that could have seemed questionable (if for somewhat different reasons) at the time, but in retrospect, were likely made in the context of budgetary and roster situation that didn't range from the soon-to-be-departing stars. (Both teams winning the planet Series within their stars last season using the team is simply a nice coincidence.) And such as the Cardinals, the Red Sox move just before free agency has kept them from scrambling, and allows to make use of the money saved through their preparation to improve the team in other areas.

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