Boston Red Sox

Boston Red Sox announced today the release of their new website.   This 
is actually a part of the new Chas' Fantasy Baseball Teams site.  It 
will include some (eventually ALL) of my fantasy league team pages.  
The Chas' FPS Red Sox portion of the page is complete.  It includes all 
stats through the end of last season.  There is ALL kinds of data about 
the club there including individual team pages for ALL the current 
players (including a picture of each player).  It has taken some time to 
create, so hopefully you'll visit it...

 The site Address is :
            www.fortunecity.com/olympia/senna/364/

It'll get updated with any and all changes to my team.  I intend to add
to it as time goes along including Trades, how players were acquired and 
hopefully a page that shows the current stats for the playing season too 
:-)

All team reports for the Red Sox will be linked to there and there will
also soon be a Trade Block page posted there of who is & isn't 
available. 

On Other Notes : 

The Red Sox have made a lot of trades lately to try to firm up the 3B 
position.  It has been done.  That should sure us up for the End of Year 
departure of 3B Dave Magadan to Free Agency.  I May also try to make a 
move or two to get another quality Catcher, as Mike Stanley will also be 
lost to Free Agency this season, but I do have Tyler Houston almost 
ready to step in and a couple others in AAA.

The Red Sox did acquire 2 GREAT prospects in the Amateur draft though.  
In the 1st round the Red Sox secured the SS position for quite some time 
to come as they got SS Deivi Cruz. This allowed for the post-draft trade 
of SS Chris Snopek to replace some of the pitching lost in the deals to 
acquire the 3Bs.  Red Sox also drafted one of the top relief pitchers in 
the draft late in the 2nd Round.  He could turn out to be a real steal 
for that point in the draft. Both Amateurs have been optioned to AAA 
Pawtucket to get some needed work, but they should eventually get there 
shot in Fenway !!

On the trade front:

We traded SS Chris Snopek, AAA P Tim Gordon,AAA P Graeme Lloyd, AAA 
Pitcher Chuck Ricci, LOW P Elmer Dessens, LOW LF Bill Schwartz & LOW CF 
Marvin Benard.

In return for those (in 3 different deals) we added :

3B Jeff Waters -   Jeff is only 22.  He has great contact & Speed.  He
will be left in AAA Pawtucket to gain more experience and work on 
his hitting.  He is expected to fill the void by Magadan come next 
season.

3B Kelly Aguilera -  Kelly is 27.  He is not of the same quality as 
Waters, but will help to fill the need at 3B.  Aguilera will compete with 
Gerald Johnson & Jeff Manto for the backup spot next season.  Spring 
training will be vital to see who will get that roster spot.  The EOY FA 
draft could also be important to filling this position.

RF Vladimir Guerrero -  a rabbit at 19.  He was acquired in a trade to 
cut salary, but we acquired him with all intentions of using him 
in a few more seasons.  Once he works on his contact at AAA Pawtucket, he 
could become a vital part of the Red Sox outfield.

P Wayne Hamilton -  Another young'en .  AS you quickly realize all the 
trades were for young players.  Wayne come in as a middle to Long 
reliever.  He was optioned back to Pawtucket for further evaluation.  He 
comes with a great changeup and a pretty good curveball, although
control is his biggest problem.  He has plenty of time to develop 
though.  He would have gone to the LOW minors, but was prematurely
promoted & and has a clause in his contract prohibiting it.

So with these 6 new young players the Red Sox are still a team on the =
move !!!