The Red Sox acquired outfielder Jeremy Hermida from the Florida Marlins Thursday in exchange for left-handed pitchers Hunter Jones and Jose Alvarez. Hermida, 25, hit .259 with 13 home runs and 47 RBIs over 129 games with the Marlins in 2009 and set a career high with 56 walks. The left-handed hitter appeared in 81 games (73 starts) in right field and 51 (40 starts) in left. He made just one error in 205 total chances for a .995 fielding percentage, sixth among qualifying National League outfielders. He appeared in just three games after August 31 because of an intercostal strain on his right side. Hermida, Florida's first-round pick (11th overall) of the 2002 draft, has a .265 career batting average with 57 homers and 210 RBIs in 516 games."We still think there's a good hitter in there," general manager Theo Epstein said.
There it is. If anyone had any doubts about where this ball club is going then let this be a lesson to you all. While the newly crowned skanks are out celebrating and fingering one another in the vagina, we're out building a champion 1 player at a time. You might even say we're playing chess while the rest of the league is playing checkers.
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