We're less than 24 hours away from Major League Baseball's non-waiver trade deadline. What does Sox GM Kenny Williams have in store, if anything?
You have to figure something is coming, especially given the tremendous state of flux the Sox roster has been in all year.
I was looking things over this afternoon, and the Sox have already used 39 players this season. That's a ton, especially for a team that is still in contention in late July.
Since Opening Day, six roster spots have changed. That's a quarter of the team turned over, and it speaks to how weak the Sox were at the start of the season.
Players who were here on Opening Day who are no more: Josh Fields, Brian Anderson, Brent Lillibridge, Wilson Betemit, Corky Miller, Bartolo Colon (DL).
Players who have come and gone in the meantime: Jerry Owens, Aaron Poreda, Jimmy Gobble, Wes Whisler, Jack Egbert, Carlos Torres, Lance Broadway.
Players who are here now, who were elsewhere on Opening Day: Gordon Beckham, Scott Podsednik, Tony Pena, Jayson Nix, Ramon Castro, Mark Kotsay.
On the whole, I think the Sox are a better team now that they were on April 6. But they still aren't good enough to win anything of significance. They are only three games out of first, but they seem just as likely to go 77-85 as they are to win the division.
This is very clearly a team in transition, and I'm anxious to see if the transition continues in the next few hours.
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