Published 7/1/2009
by Joe Slowik
at Bleacher Report - MLB
Those of you that follow the Sox closely may have heard the reference to the "three-year board" before. General Manager Kenny Williams has mentioned in the past that he has a board that he uses as a reference with all of the players in the organization and which ones he expects to be a part of the roster over the next three seasons.
I will now create my own three-year Board with my own guesses concerning the following:
-Which Sox players will still be around for the 2012 season
-Which Sox prospects we can reasonably expect to contribute to the team
-Which areas we may want to consider targeting a free agent or trade acquisition
This is sure to be largely wrong because I'm trying to predict what the team will look like two-and-a-half years into the future, but it will still give you an idea of what to expect from the Sox and give you some reasons to be optomistic about the direction the team is going in.
I will be doing the position players in this article, with an analysis of the ...
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