Felger was about 75% of the way through a lucid Red Sox comment but couldn't get his mind all of the way there. Which sucks.
He kept saying the Red Sox need to hold onto their prospects because they are necessary to build a championship team. This is probably true. Mostly because when you're paying Lester and Buchholz and Pedroia and Youkilis and Ellsbury below market money for all star performances, it gives you the flexibility to pay people like Carl Crawford and Adrian Gonzalez to get over the hump.
Felgie kept saying - if you trade all of your prospect, you're like the Mets...well, maybe but because you can't acquire enough talent. Not because a free agent magically doesn't try as hard as a home grown prospect.
2004 Red Sox - catcher was traded for, 1B was a FA, 2B was a FA, SS was traded for, 3B was a FA, LF a FA, CF a FA, RF an actual homegrown prospect. SP1 traded for, SP2 a FA, SP3 traded for (DLowe), SP4 a ML FA (Arroyo), SP5 ML FA (Wake). Bullpen all FA except Embree who was traded for.
I actually think he has a great mind, it's just not deep enough to get through everything and articulate it thoroughly.