i heard there losing money and baseball players are leaving due to wage demands !" Not true. Earlier this year, Forbes ranked the Red Sox as the 3rd most valuable team in Major League Baseball, with the 7th highest profit in 2011. The players who left earlier this summer didn't do so of their own accord. Boston rid themselves of two of their worst contracts by packaging them with that of an admittedly great, but ultimately replaceable, player. It was a smart piece of business that freed up hundreds of millions of dollars for roster improvements. An (imperfect) analogy using LFC might be: Imagine if Torres were still at Anfield and we told Chelsea: yes, you can have him for 45 million...as long as you also buy Henderson and Downing at full price as part of the deal (only, in this example, we'd paid 30 million each for those two, not 20). Totally agree that John W Henry can't impact on points 3 and 4, just wanted to him to realise how hard it is to watch the team making the same mistakes. If those points somehow filtered through to the manager and coaching staff, great. YNWA To be fair: 1&gt; They can only be responsible for Adam. And we probably overpaid for him (As with Handerson. Downing and Carroll they took advice and it was wrong -- which he admits). 2&gt; You can't fault their intent -- they (over)paid for Carroll. 3 and 4 &gt; That's a management and