DALLAS-years ago at this time, Terry Francona makes recruiting trip to lobby free agent Carl Crawford, his efforts are rewarded when Crawford signed with the Red Sox.
This past weekend, Francona’s's successor, Bobby Valentine, en route to Dominican Republic a day after he was announced as the new team manager to make good the David Ortiz, You did not make the trip unless you commit to keeping Papi grew up in the place.
How managers deployed on the eve of the winter meetings describing how different Sox close to these meetings as compared to last year. The Sox would hand over a large stage to others, like Jose Reyes a six-year, $ 106 million transactions.
You can’t go every year to spend nearly $ 300 million in just two players–Crawford and Adrian Gonzalez–such as the Sox did last winter. General manager Ben Cherington, new, wanted to keep what he has–re-signing Ortiz, who has until Wednesday to decide whether to accept salary arbitration–while wanting to make the necessary but should save the upgrade to the list.
–The Consensus team who fell at the end of 2011 is still built to win.