Many have been critical of the moves that Ben Cherington and the Boston Red Sox have made over the past couple years - Hanley Ramirez, Pablo Sandoval and Rusney Castillo to name a few.
But what about the moves they didn't make? What about a player like Nelson Cruz?
According to the Seattle Mariners outfielder, David Ortiz tried to bring him to Boston, but the Red Sox didn't show the same interest.
“He was all in,” Cruz recalled this weekend. “Anytime we played, he reminded me that he wanted me here. It meant a lot. I’m a fan of him, and also a good friend. When a player like him, a future Hall of Famer, requests for you to play with him, it’s definitely something that grabs you.”
While some wanted Cruz' bat in the Red Sox lineup, Dan Shaughnessy doesn't blame the club for not going after the power-hitting outfielder.
"An established PED guy, if they bring him in you're getting a bleep show over, 'why are they rewarding this?'" said Shaughnessy. "Among all the transgressions, the things you can hang Ben [Cherington] out to dry for, this is not one of them."