Farrell: Adding Greinke, Price like having 2 turkeys at Thanksgiving
Boston Red Sox manager John Farrell has plenty to be grateful for this Thanksgiving as he continues to recover from stage 1 Non-Hodgkin's Burkitt lymphoma.
The skipper's cancer is in remission, allowing him to take part in the team's offseason plans, with sights set on landing one of the top free-agent starters.
Improving the rotation is a focal point in Boston, and Farrell is confident the team has the resources to land one of Johnny Cueto, David Price, Jordan Zimmermann, or Zack Greinke.
"We've got an identified need, we have the resources that John (Henry), Tom (Werner), Mike Gordon, and others have committed and made available, and Dave (Dombrowski)'s got a history of being able to secure pitchers of this kind of elite status," Farrell told WEEI.
He was asked how perfect it would be to land both Greinke and Price.
"That would be like having two turkeys at Thanksgiving," Farrell responded.
The Red Sox certainly had no shortage of turkeys in their rotation last year, as their starters ranked 24th in the league in ERA.