by Andrew JohnsonFiled under: Brewers, Cardinals, Cubs, Red Sox, Tigers, Twins, White Sox, MLB Transactions, MLB Hot Stove, MLB Free Agency
Think of the 2010 offseason as the Winter of the Also-Rans. If your team finished just out of the proverbial money this past season, chances are it shelled out some cash or cashed in on some prospects to try and make sure that doesn't happen again in 2011.
We know all about what the Red Sox have done so far this winter after finishing third in the AL East and six games behind the Yankees for the AL wild card with 89 wins. When Adrian Gonzalez's extension becomes official sometime in April, Boston will have traded four prospects and committed in excess of $300 million to remake a lineup that ranked second in the league in runs scored in 2010 and a bullpen that was a sore spot all season long. Their payroll, for now at least, looks like it will be higher than New York's.
But the Red Sox are hardly alone. They're merely the flashiest of the teams who spent big after finishing the year looking up in the standings.
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Source: http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2010/12/21/hot-stove-burns-for-2010s-also-rans/
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