Carl Everett

Everett exercised his player option for 2005 - a good decision since no one was going to be handing him $4 million voluntarily coming off an injury-plagued year. If Frank Thomas misses the beginning of the year Everett could start at DH, but otherwise it's hard to see where he fits in on the Sox, other than as a bench bat.

Everett had a nice bounce-back campaign in 2003, posting his best numbers since his first season in Boston. While health is always a concern, he could benefit from playing in Montreal and the 22 games in hitter-friendly Hiram Bithorn Stadium in Puerto Rico.

Once he finally got healthy, he hit, and hit well, posting a .360 average over the final two months of the season. There wasn't a lot of power in those numbers (just six home runs), but he was one of Texas' best players the final two months. While it might be foolish to expect a return to his halcyon days of 1999-2000, the Ballpark can help him return to a .280/20-25 HR level with oodles of RBI hitting behind some pretty solid bats in the middle of the Texas order. There's a lot of upside here.