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The Red Sox organization made a calculated decision during this past offseason to trade offense in exchange for pitching and defense. The club had the third-highest total of runs scored in 2009, but failed to measure up in the field. The decision was made that the offense is robust enough to sacrifice some run production in exchange for run prevention. So, Jason Bay was dispatched and Mike Lowell will soon follow...in their place the team signed free agents 3B Adrian Beltre, CF Mike Cameron, and RHP John Lackey. According to some analysis , the tradeoff will actually improve the club significantly in terms of runs scored/runs against. Beltre was brought in for his glove work...the big question is whether he will be able to improve his offensive production in light of his dismal performance ...

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Article written by Jeffrey Brown