As far as our clubhouse goes, you can see a successful integration of talent that has been developed here like Buchholz and (Dustin) Pedroia and guys that have been brought in through free agency and trades.” “I know there is a lot of commentary on the way talent is acquired but that is a discussion that is far above my pay grade. Aside from that, we wear different colors,” Red Sox reliever Craig Breslow joked. “We play in Boston and they play in New York.
“From what I’ve learned in my eight years here, our front office does whatever they can to put the team in a position to win so I don’t know why that would be different there.” When you are talking baseball teams, the Yankees and the Red Sox are the first two teams that come up,” Buchholz said.
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“They’ve got more World Series rings than we do but to be honest I’ve never really thought about it. So, besides the infusion of homegrown talent on the big league roster, how do the Red Sox and the team once dubbed “The Evil Empire” by Boston brass differ? Center fielder Mason Williams tacked on two more with a ground-rule double in the top of the seventh. New York’s Jonathan Galves cleared the bases with a three-run triple down the right field line in the top of the fourth. Designated hitter Brian McCann, who went 1-for-3 with a run scored, was the only projected Opening Day starter to make the trip for New York. Like the Red Sox did two days prior, New York sent a skeleton crew on the road. Betts, who also made two highlight-worthy catches in the field, finished the night 2-for-3 with two runs scored and pushed his average this spring to. Center fielder Mookie Betts, who hopes to become Boston’s next homegrown prospect-turned-regular-starter, doubled off the Green Monster and scored on an RBI single by David Ortiz in the third. On the field, the Red Sox fell to the Yankees 5-3 in front of a standing-room-only crowd at JetBlue Park on Friday night. Last year, the Yankees average roster age of 32.9 was the oldest in the majors. The Yankees will likely have just one in left fielder Brett Gardner. Of the probable Opening Day lineup - including presumed starting pitcher Clay Buchholz - Boston will likely have five starters who played their first Major League game as a member of the Red Sox. “If you were to pick up the rosters and compare, that would be the starting point. “I can speak about what we are and that is a roster that will always include young players, surrounded by talented veteran players,” Farrell said. However, manager John Farrell believes that the premium put on signing and developing its own young players is the biggest difference between the two organizations. On the surface, these things look very Yankee-like.
Among those teams that Boston outspent: the New York Yankees. Boston outbid 11 other teams for the services of the 19-year old by giving him a reported $31.5 million signing bonus - a record for an international free agent. To fill the void left in the Red Sox starting rotation after the departure of longtime ace Jon Lester, the team traded for lefthander Wade Miley by shipping out two of its most coveted young pitching prospects in fireballers Rubby De La Rosa and Allen Webster.Īnd just hours before the two teams met on Friday night, the Red Sox announced the signing of Cuban infielder Yoan Moncada. In an effort to fix that in 2015, the Red Sox doled out $183 million to acquire free agent sluggers Hanley Ramirez and Pablo Sandoval - two of the biggest names on the market - in the offseason. Last season, the Boston Red Sox finished in the bottom five of the American League in hits, runs, home runs and slugging percentage. “The pattern, the practice, the history are all very different.’’ We run our clubs differently,” CEO Larry Lucchino said on the first day of spring training workouts in Fort Myers. Or, at least, that is what the Boston organization likes to pride itself on.
FORT MYERS - The Boston Red Sox are not the New York Yankees.
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