Opening Day Red Sox Lineup

[VegasInsider]

Francona on Boston sports radio today..

Ellsbury
Pedroia
Crawford
Gonzalez
Youkalis
Ortiz

That's a dangerous first six hitters.

[jrego1970]

Their lineup will be scary.

[Pauulzcappin]

Bottom 3 are gonna suck. Its gonna be what? Scutaro, Saltalalalla and whoelse?

[BettingWizard]

ortiz is done, he won't be able to survive a slow start and comeback for the 3rd year in a row

probably gets injured too

[gryfyn1]

Bottom 3 are gonna suck. Its gonna be what? Scutaro, Saltalalalla and whoelse?

It should be Drew (255/341/452 last year); Scutaro (275/333/388 last year) amd Saltamachia, certainly not bad for the 7,8,9 hitters espically when the have a host of younger players like Reddick, Kalish, Navaro and Lowrie looking to make an impact and take those spots,

[goblue1988]

Saltalamacchia is a piece of shit. Doug Mirabelli isn't available?

[antifoil]

how far into the season will they bench scutaro to play lowrie?

[Pauulzcappin]

Meh, completely forgot about JD Drew. Guess I'm not all into the baseball fever to forget such a simple thing.

[lunchbawks]

scutaro should lead off.

[VegasInsider]

Yeah, the bottom three hitters won't be great....but they should be able to hold their own.

7. Drew
8. Salty
9. Scutaro

Scutaro is a better defensive player than Lowrie, but Lowrie has the better bat. They're going to give Salty a chance, hopefully he can hit .270 and throw out baserunners. The Sox haven't been able to throw anyone out for years. This is a contract year for Drew and he knows he has to produce or he'll be a year by year player for the rest of his career.

[goblue1988]

So with Cameron as the obvious 4th wheel, who wins the 5th OF spot? McDonald, Nava, or Kalish?

[Eating Bookies]

Yeah, the bottom three hitters won't be great....but they should be able to hold their own.

7. Drew
8. Salty
9. Scutaro

Scutaro is a better defensive player than Lowrie, but Lowrie has the better bat. They're going to give Salty a chance, hopefully he can hit .270 and throw out baserunners. The Sox haven't been able to throw anyone out for years. This is a contract year for Drew and he knows he has to produce or he'll be a year by year player for the rest of his career.

and Drew needs to stay healthy for his sake.

[mlb]

adding a frieken 3 and 4 hitter in the off season on any team would help, but adding a 3 and 4 to the RED SOX!!!!

[mebaran]

So crazy...they have TOO many good hitters that they can't even put Gonzo batting 3rd (which is where I thought he should be). So sick...it's like a fantasy team.

[antifoil]

how far into the season will they bench scutaro to play lowrie?

i guess the answer was 2 weeks

[legendmatt34]

Finally showing up.