It hit me at one point in the offseason that of the 30 teams in the game of baseball, there are a few teams that currently “get it” when it comes to running an organization, both short-term and long-term.
There are a few teams that get it and then there is the Boston Red Sox.
Few teams are on Boston’s playing field when it comes to spending money. That is a reality of the game we play in and for the foreseeable future, it will be the reality.
Yet the Red Sox do something that few other teams in their position do and quite frankly, I’m shocked that another team hasn’t tried to copy their blueprint.
This team spends money on free agents like John Lackey, but they put a lot of their financial backing into the players they draft as well. Like the free agent market ...
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2010 MLB Manifesto: How the Red Sox Run Baseball and Business
Posted: 15th March 2010 by Nino Colla in MLBComments Off on 2010 MLB Manifesto: How the Red Sox Run Baseball and Business