Marco Scutaro and Other Baseless Speculation on the Red Sox Offseason

This Column Originally Published At GetOutofMyBallpark.com

With only a few days left until the Winter Meetings (my favorite non-baseball season week of the year), nobody really has any idea what is going on with the Red Sox.

Last year we all knew that they were going to go hard after Mark Teixeira and that the Yanks were going to sign CC Sabathia.

In the weeks since the end of the season, there have been rumors of everything from the Sox getting Roy Halladay for Buchholz and Casey Kelly (who is both a shortstop and starting pitcher), to them signing Matt Holiday instead of Jason Bay so that they could net an extra draft pick, and finally to Theo giving up his first born, Mike Lowell and the souls of half the front office to get Hanley Ramirez back and end the curse of Nomar.

The most recent word with any certainty is that Marco Scutaro, a career utility player who managed to put in a career year last season in Toronto, wants to come to Boston. The team has sent Allard Baird to see him work out and requested his medical records.

Of course, this wouldn't have been necessary if the team hadn't crapped the bed when they had a chance to resign Alex Gonzalez, who has been the closest thing to an actual shortstop that the Sox have had since Cabrera and his "off-field issues" departed after 2004.

The most recent report is that Scutaro is signing a two year deal, with an option for a third, which should be just enough time to let Jose Iglesias, the Sox wiz kid shortstop of the future, to season in the minors. With the option of Gonzalez off the table, this is the best move possible.

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