The Red Sox have a weak offense.

Alright, I am not sure what to say now as I have no rebuttal to make, but here I go. C: Victor Martinez V-Mart is the third-best hitting catcher in the entire MLB. McCann and Mauer are the only ones better. He hit .331 last season with the Red Sox. This is the first time the Red Sox have had a good hitting catcher since Carlton Fisk. The Red Sox hitting from this position has improved from last year. Instead of half-Varitek, half-Martinez, it is now 100% Victor's job. 1B: Kevin Youkilis Youkilis, whom you for some inexplicable reason call underrated, has the highest OPS+ of any American League first basemen over the last three years. He is an absolute on-base machine. He will do whatever it takes to get on base. He walks, he hits for average and he hits for power. This is his first year hitting fourth, and his RBI numbers are going to skyrocket. 2B: Dustin Pedroia Pedroia had his worst offensive season last year. He has done a great job in Boston. Remember when you said he has a lack of home runs? Yeah, well, he is leading the team with THREE home runs already this season! He can crush the ball, and he makes contact every at bat. 3B: Adrian Beltre Beltre is not very good offensively, but he will be much improved going from a year in Seattle to Boston. Boston is an exponentially better hitter's park than Seattle and Beltre had one of the lowest BAbip's of his careers last year. His luck will turn around. He hit fourth at times in Seattle, now he is all the way down to sixth. SS: Marco Scutaro Best Boston shortstop since Nomar? It could be close between him and Orlando Cabrera, but Scutaro will give O.C. a run for his money. Scutaro is 34, but last year was the best season of his entire career offensively. He is a #1 hitter who is batting NINTH! RF: J.D. Drew Drew is one of the more underrated hitters in the league. He has not lived up to his contract, but he is not even remotely close to bad. He has a consistently high average, high OBP, high SLG, high OPS+ and a good amount of home runs. What more do you want from your #7 hitter? CF: Mike Cameron Power, power and more power. That's what Cameron has. His batting average is just plain bad, I admit it, but he can crush the ball and he has been very close to hitting a lot out, but the flyballs are not falling in his favor. That will change and he will rack up the homer totals, especially at a hitter's park like Fenway. LF: Jacoby Ellsbury Jacoby is one of the best leadoff hitters in baseball and is one of the top two or three basestealers. He has a total of 120 in '08 and '09. He is a special base stealer and his blazing speed will result in a lot of extra runs for the Red Sox. ~~~~~~ Patience ~~~~~~ There is more to offense than hitting the ball. The Red Sox and Theo Epstein are well aware of this fact. Ever heard of running up the pitch count? That's what the Sox are capable of. The Red Sox have five players who were in the top 40 of pitches per plate appearance last season and six in the top sixty. The "overrated" Kevin Youkilis was second in all of baseball. Based on last season's statistics, it would take an average pitcher over 35 pitches to get through the lineup just once. And it is safe to say that Beltre, Cameron and Scutaro will all prove to be more patient at the plate because that is what the Red Sox stress. Thank you for the debate.