News and Notes While Waiting for the Julio Lugo to get on Base

So I’m on vacation out here on Cape Cod (in the pouring rain) with nothing to do but watch TV, read Red Sox rumors and eat fried sea food (mmm). I’d be at the beach except it’s only 50 degrees and Noah is outside looking for two of every animal… that’s neither here nor there. Let’s talk Sox news.

Lester staying in AAA: I’m ok with this. He needs to make 2 or 3 more “look guys I’m ok” starts and get ready to carry the back end of this staff. Besides they still haven’t found the best drug cocktail to subdue Tavarez when he informed he’s going back to the pen. But let's not wait too long. I would like to see Lester before someone gets hurt and we have no choice but to call him up.

Helton to the Sox? To the Yanks?: With Colorado coming to town the rumors of Helton moving to the northeast still persist. Lowell plus a young arm to the Rockies for Todd Helton seemed likely before the season started, but it fell through. Now the Yanks need a hard hitting first baseman and Helton is still flagged as available. This makes more sense for them right now (Helton said he wants to go to a contender) but what would the Yankees trade for him? Not sure if there is a match here unless the Rockies decide to pull a Philadelphia from last year and ok a trade that would be vetoed in a heartbeat in your fantasy league. If the Red Sox don’t plan to keep Lowell, I would thing getting Helton and moving Youk to third again would be a good deal… but we may need to wait till the off-season for this to pan out.

Lugo to the bottom of a well: Well maybe not a well but at least to the back of the batting order. This guy is doing so poorly he should be batting 11th. Forget leadoff, I don’t think Lugo should be in the two spot. Moving the hot hitting Perdoia up might make the lineup a little top heavy, but they need to get people on base for Papi and Manny to smack in. Lugo shouldn’t have more RBI than runs and he shouldn’t weigh more than his OBP. Bat him 8th for awhile so I can start complaining about Coco again.