FOUR OF FIRST FIVE PICKS EX-YANKEES
BY PAT DORWIN
SPORTSWRITER
BOSTON GLOBE
DALLAS - THE LEFT SIDE OF THE BOSTON INFIELD FOR 2010 IS SET, AS ARE CATCHER AND CLOSER, ALL COURTESY OF THE YANKEES.
AT THE PLAYSTATION2 FANTASY DRAFT, HELD IN DALLAS, THE RED SOX FRONT OFFICE PUT A DECIDELY BIG CITY PLAN TO WORK, CHOOSING FOUR YANKEES WITH THEIR INITIAL FIVE PICKS.
NEW TO BOSTON - BUT CERTAINLY NOT STRANGERS TO THE CITY AND ITS RABID FANS, ALEX RODRGUEZ, DEREK JETER, MARIANO RIVERA AND JORGE POSADA - THE FIRST THREE SURE-FIRE HALL-OF-FAMERS, THE FOURTH WITH A CHANCE TO BE ENSHRINED, WILL ANCHOR THE RED SOX OFFENSE AND BULLPEN.
"THE QUESTION WILL BE IF THEY CAN GET ENOUGH WORK FOR RIVERA," SAID AN AMERICAN LEAGUE SCOUT. "WITH ALL THEIR OFFENSIVE FIREPOWER - BUT A VERY YOUNG STARTING STAFF - THE RED SOX MAY FIND THEMSELVES ON ONE END OR ANOTHER OF A NUMBER OF HIGH-SCORING GAMES."
AFTER SNARING RODRIGUEZ AND JETER WITH THE FIRTS TWO PICKS, BOSTON FOLLOWED WITH MASSIVE 1B ADAM DUNN, RIVERA, POSADA, CURRENT LF JACOBY ELLSBURY, SP JONATHAN SANCHEZ, 2B DAN UGGLA, AND OFs JAY BRUCE AND NICK SWISHER, THE LATTER ALSO AN EX-YANKEE.
"THEN THEY HAD A STRONG RUN FOR PICKS 11 TO 20," THE SCOUT SAID.
BOSTON PICKED UP OF COLBY RASMUS, ROOKIE SP MAT LATOS, ROOKIE C BUSTER POSEY, SP CHRIS VOLSTAD, UTILITYMAN RYAN ROBERTS, DH TRAVIS HAFNER, SPs BRIAN MATUSZ, TOMMY HUNTER AND MADISON BUMGARNER AND 2B-OF SKIP SCHUMAKER AT PICK NO. 20.
"YOU'D THINK ALL THOSE GUYS COME OUT OF SPRING (TRAINING) ON THE RED SOX ROSTER," THE SCOUT SAID, ADDING BOSTON'S FOLLOWING RUN ON CLOSERS THEY PLAN ON TURNING INTO A BAND OF SHORT RELIEVERS "COULD BACKFIRE ON THE TEAM."
BOSTON ADDED FORMER YANKEES BRETT GARDNER (OF, PICK 25) AND RP JONATHAN ALBALAJEDO WITH PICK 44.
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