Terry Francona and the Boston Red Sox look towards Spring
Times in Boston are looking to spell success in the coming days as some of the best players in Major League Baseball will combine their efforts under one franchise to set the tempo for the regular season. Spring Training is about one month away and though
there is still time for some free agency transaction to go into play, the Red Sox will not be making key adjustments anytime soon.
The ball club made the best of the winter break when they signed Adrian Gonzalez from the San Diego Padres and Carl Crawford from the free market. The loss of Victor Martinez and Adrian Beltre will surely not be significant. There have been other players
making their way to the team. Bobby Jenks has come from the Chicago White Sox to provide cover to Jonathan Papelbon on the Closer’s position.
Boston Baseball Writers Dinner was scheduled recently and manager of the club, Terry Francona explained the event as it marks the closeness of the spring training period.
"We're going to be there tonight and everyone's going to be talking about baseball," said Red Sox manager Terry Francona. "You'll see some guys (from the team). But I think we've already gotten to that point (of anticipation). When the rookies got here over
the last couple weeks, you see them (working out) and start interacting and watching them, it's kind of that little internal clock that kind of hits. It's an exciting time."
The team will have a lot of players returning from the injury list as well. One man in particular will be Jed Lowrie. The team’s second baseman will be returning to the club and though his position isn’t in conflict with anyone else’s, there is the added
advantage of having infield cover. Terry was able to talk about Marco Scutaro who has practically played everywhere. It will have to be seen how spring training plays the stars together.
"Rather than worry about an infield competition because Scutaro's our shortstop, this guy gives us something that I don't know a lot of teams can say they have a switch hitter that can play first, second, third or short, and play it a lot," Francona said.
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