Red Sox knuckleballer Tim Wakefield won't be playing out the rest of his career on a year-by-year basis after all. The Red Sox inked the No. 5 starter to a two-year deal on Monday, but what does the future of Josh Beckett -- the pitcher at the other end of the rotation -- hold?
The Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital will honor veterans at Fenway Park on Veterans Day. The groups will announce the new "2010 Run to Home Base" festivities, which will raise money and awareness for the Home Base program. The program will help United States veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars with traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Red Sox manager Terry Francona will be answering questions on NESN.com this offseason. Send questions to his mailbag.
Here’s his third installment.
If Jason Bay and Billy Wagner don't return to the Red Sox in 2010, the club will at least be compensated for the departure of the left fielder and left-handed reliever. The MLB Players Association has listed both Bay and Wagner as Type A free agents, The Boston Globe reports.
The future of Jason Varitek in a Red Sox jersey now rests in the catcher's hands.
That's because the Red Sox have elected not to exercise the one-year, $5 million option on Varitek.
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