Boston sucked on defense. It is interesting, though, that the Red Sox acquired Dave Roberts and Doug Mientkiewicz to help them with speed and defense down the stretch. Help yes, but they didn't win the WS with great defense. They went from brutal to just bad. Mueller,Cabrera,Nixon,Mienk. are all above avg. defensively. They were avg. to above avg. as a team. Nixon is nothing special defensively, and Varitek, Bellhorn, Manny, and Damon are about as bad as it gets.