Nick Green and Chris Carter are your final members of the 2009 Opening Day Boston Red Sox, Sean McAdams reports. Carter grabs the “Kotsay spot” and should see time at first and DH until Kotsay returns in May. Green will back up the infield until Julio Lugo returns a week or two into the season.
Things can change if the Red Sox make an acqusition this week. The Sox are known to like Jeff Keppinger, who is available. If they do acquire Keppinger, you would have to think Lugo will not return at all.
H/T to The Bottom Line.
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I don’t see Keppinger as an improvement over Nick Green, who has clearly re-discovered his skills at just the right time. It would be foolish not to take the hot bat into April, even as a temporary backup.