Monday, March 3, 2008

Dice-K, Drew, Lugo, can they get better?

This is a question that has been circling us all winter, can these three h=key players kick it up a notch in '08, here's my input on the matter.

Dice-K: Dice-K will definitley improve in '08. Despite not being what expected last year, he still won 15 games with 201 K's. He proved to be important in the Postseason, and provided 2 wins. He is also doing well in spring training, and I think he mearly needed to adapt to America. I don't think he can be a second Josh Beckett, but he can easily provide, 16-19 wins, 200-220 K's, 210-230 IP's.

Drew: Again, he had an average season last year, but not to his standards. He is also doing better in Spring Training, and another Adaption problem. His bat might have been a little cold, but his glove was hot, only 6 errors. He was also a boost in the postseason. I think we all remember that gramd slam in inning 1 in game 6 off Faust Carmona during the ALCS. That really seemed to change him, and he seems to be looked at completly differently by Boston since then. Drew can easily provide .280-20 numbers, and more baserunning and another hjot glove season.

Lugo: Lugo is different than Drew and Dice-K. He is a middle class player on an upper class team. It seems like he could have a Coco Crisp style Red Sox career, a subpar first season, then having a youngster take his job in season 2. He might have AB's shortened toward the end of the season due to Jed Lowrie, but can still provide .260-5 this season.

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