Boston

In 2008 and 2010, Crawford helped the Rays make the playoffs with great fielding and hitting as a member of their team. But this year he did so by struggling for Boston all season and by muffing a very playable ball in Baltimore Wednesday night that allowed the Orioles' winning run to score and knocked Boston out of the playoff race.

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Just a few days after Boston's shocking September collapse, the Cubs have swooped in and hired three beloved Red Sox figures: Theo Epstein as GM, Terry Francona as manager and Ted Williams’ head as hitting coach.

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Cubs fans have generally been enthusiastic to the idea of Terry Francona and Theo Epstein joining their team, but that's begun to change now that it was revealed the World Series titles Epstein and Francona won with Boston in 2004 and 2007 are not retroactively transferable to the Cubs.

While the Cubs chairman has scored low on the baseball IQ chart since taking over the team, Tom Ricketts is starting to show some savvy after scoring Theo Epstein to replace Jim Hendry as GM. Unfortunately, Ricketts attempts to pawn off both Carlos Zambrano and Alfonso Soriano to Boston have not been met with exuberance.

Why They Might Be Good: The Celts have five point guards with the talent to start – Delonte West, Sebastian Telfair, Tony Allen, and rookies Rajon Rondo and Allan Ray – and one would assume that at least two of them are bound contribute on a nightly basis. Maybe. Possibly. Theoretically. Plus at some point around January, Paul Pierce will go on a tear in which he scores 164 points in four consecutive games.