Red Sox Signing Like It's 2003

The contracts that have been cranked out of Yawkey Way during the last week have me thinking back to when we had roughly seven different first basement, 2 third basemen, closer by committee, Nomar, and a partridge in a pear tree. Rocco Baldelli, John Smoltz, Brad Penny, Mark Kotsay and now Takashi Saito have all taken turns signing one year deals for "eh" money. How do we feel about this? Good. We feel good.   Look, after the Yankees snapped up C.C. Sabathia and Mark Teixeira, the free agent market became really, well, average. While Baldelli is certainly no Teixeira, offensively or defensively, when you but both he and Mark Kotsay on the same bench as outfield platooners you get a lot of versatility and depth, and maybe that's what the front office was going for in the first place.   Consider the fact that Baldelli is only guaranteed $500K for the year (with an extra $1.75 million in incentives), and then consider that, when healthy, he hits somewhere aroun...