Espn power rankings has sox @ 4th position

[roary]

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=1692140

Injuries to Nomar Garciaparra, Trot Nixon and Byung-Hyun Kim set a troubling tone for a team that hasn't done a good job getting its players under contract. The potential free agents after this season include Pedro Martinez, Derek Lowe, Scott Williamson, Jason Varitek, David Ortiz and Garciaparra.

Of course they put the yankees @ #1:

Given that $190 million payroll, there's surprisingly little depth in the starting rotation but it looks like one of the best lineups in history. It's amazing how little talk there has been about Gary Sheffield, who is as good of a bet to win the AL MVP as Alex Rodriguez.

[yeszir]

Hopefully the team will prove them wrong. No matter what they say, I still think its even money for the sox or the yankees to win the division.

[FourZeroSix]

Let them rank the Sox 30th if they want... it doesn't matter. Aslong as they go out and do what they have the ability to do, everything will fall into place.

[yagmaster]

No one cares who's number one at the beginning of the year...especially if it's the yankees...where were the marlins ranked last year at the beginning or the angels two years ago...its all about who ends up with the ring

[FourZeroSix]

Exactly.