Watch For A Much Improved Julio Lugo in 2008

The most ridiculed move of the Theo Epstein Era could very well be the acquisition of Julio Lugo to play shortstop. Yes, more than letting Orlando Cabrera walk to the West Coast, signing Matt Clement and Edgar Renteria for four years in the same winter, or handing J.D. Drew the fattest check of his lifetime. The general consensus around baseball argues that Julio Lugo was an unmitigated disaster in his first year when, looking closer, our shortstop was not all that terrible. We managed to win a World Series in which Lugo posted a .500 OBP, didn