The champagne was still flowing in the visitor’s clubhouse at Coors Field that October night in 2007 when the jubilant Denver chapter of Red Sox Nation made its first, adamant request for 2008.
He walks too much. He sits too much. He makes too much.
For a player who reveals so little emotion, no player seems to elicit more emotion than J.D. Drew.
In what was, at the time, the defining moment of Theo Epstein's career, the general manager sat at a podium on July 31, 2004, and explained to a bewildered Red Sox fan base why its favorite son was leaving town.
BOSTON -- The Red Sox gathered at Fenway Park on a sunny Monday afternoon, but there was no batting practice to take, no bullpen sessions to throw. No Game 4 of the division series against the Angels to play.
After going 95-67 in the regular season only to be swept out of the playoffs in the ALDS by the Angels, the Red Sox are all packed up and heading home for their longest winter in three years.
BOSTON -- Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein said on Monday that right-hander Tim Wakefield, who struggled through the second half of 2009 with back and leg injuries, will have surgery later this week.
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