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What Have You Done for Me Lately? The Janet Jackson Red Sox

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Does Sox management get a free pass, a few kudos, or both? Does winning a WS totally exonerate them for playing  boring, bad baseball  much of the time the past 3+ years? They're almost unwatchable these days.  Christian Vazquez  isn't enough to redeem this mess.  Has  Koji Uehara  finally hit the wall?  http://www.baseball-reference. com/players/e/ellsbja01.shtml    Too soon to call  Jacoby Ellsbury  a bust in NY, but his numbers are poor for a guy in a bandbox and making a Brinks' truck haul of a salary.  No gripe with a guy getting paid, but he hasn't shown he's a top 10 MVP candidate to earn the big dollars/long-term money, no matter how much water some scribes carried for him. He has everything to prove and we'll find out whether the money has turned him into  Josh Beckett . It's always the Janet Jackson, "what have you done for me lately?" story in big markets.  http://www.baseball-reference...