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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jan 29, 2021 17:50:59 GMT -5
Emergency repairs needed at Red Sox' spring training home
Fort Myers News-Press
JetBlue Park, the nine-year old baseball spring training site in Lee County used by the Boston Red Sox, needed emergency repairs to avoid a potentially "catastrophic if not fatal" collapse of an elevated walkway at the ballpark, county documents reveal.
Work was initiated to fix the problem several weeks ago. The problem was not disclosed publicly until early this week, although commissioners were briefed privately on the problem, a spokeswoman said.
The secret repair job was revealed publicly in documents provided to county commissioners for its meeting Tuesday. The five member commission is being asked to retroactively approve $250,000 for the repair.
Repair costs were broken down into $26,264 for engineering work performed by HighSpans Engineering Inc. and $223,736 for the contractor, Wright Construction Group.
County commissioners met twice after the need for the repairs was recognized and the required paperwork prepared to approve the work after it was finished.
However, the public safety issue at the park that led to the Dec. 11 emergency funding request was not discussed at commission meetings held Dec.15 and Jan. 19.
In initiating the repair work, a payment request signed by Parks and Recreation Director Jesse Lavender painted a dire picture of the danger the weakened skywalk on the left field side of the park posed to patrons.
"The skywalk connections between the steel-supported walkway and the elevated, cast in concrete, walkway have become compromised," the Dec. 11 request for funds said.
The request for an emergency expenditure to fix the walkway warned there could be an "extremely catastrophic if not fatal situation if it were to give way and collapse."
County Communications Director Betsy Clayton said the work is expected to be finished Monday.
One end the support for a Skywalk at JetBlue Park in unincorporated Lee County. Emergency repairs are planned to avoid the potential for collapse that the county says could be catastrophic or fatal.
"This is an area of the stadium that is not in use this time of year," she said in an e-mail. "The stadium will be safe and ready for spring training."
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Feb 1, 2021 4:17:34 GMT -5
Major League Baseball proposes one-month delay to spring training, and 2021 season
By Michael Silverman Globe Staff,Updated January 31, 2021, 5:24 p.m.
Major League Baseball has issued a proposal to the players to start the season a month late, a request that includes expanded authority for the commissioner to cut the season short, according to a baseball source on Sunday.
The players are expected to reject the proposal. The 2021 season is scheduled to begin April 1, with spring training kicking off by the middle of February.
The MLB proposal calls for a 154-game schedule with players earning 100 percent of the salaries they would get for a 162-game schedule. The full pay appeals to the players, but the expanded authority of the commissioner means their salaries would not be guaranteed, an unsurprising deal-killer in the eyes of the union.
The owners believe a one-month delay would increase the chance of completing the 2021 season in the face of a pandemic that is still battering the nation during a slow rollout of vaccines. Last week, the Arizona Cactus League requested a delayed start to spring training because of the surge in the state’s counties where 15 MLB teams play. A later start, combined with increased vaccinations and hopefully a decline in COVID-19 cases, would also increase the chances of owners opening ballparks in at least a limited capacity and reaping revenues from fans.
The proposal seeks a mid-March spring training report by players, with the season starting in early May and extending by approximately a week into October, with more doubleheaders on the schedule.
Also in the proposal: Using the designated hitter in both leagues and expanding the postseason, as the sides agreed to do on an experimental basis in their abbreviated 60-game 2020.
The league wants an answer by Monday from the Players Association, which has spent the weekend reviewing the proposal with players and agents.
The Red Sox are expected to announce details about their spring training plans as early as Monday, months later than customary.
Dates such as when the ballclub’s equipment truck makes its annual trek from Boston to Fort Myers, Fla., and when pitchers, catchers, and position players report are usually announced in the late fall, along with spring training ticket information and game times.
Visits by fans to the Red Sox’ JetBlue Park spring training home traditionally begin when the players report and begin workouts, but the team has yet to issue policies for whether COVID-19 health and safety protocols will allow fans to attend.
Giving Rob Manfred the ultimate word in deciding if the season can safely continue represents a lessening of the power held by the union. The current CBA, which expires Dec. 1, stipulates a 162-game season must be scheduled. The sole exception is in the event of a national emergency.
The pending CBA talks for a multi-year deal provide a valid backdrop to every development affecting the shape and dimensions of the current season.
This winter the union pushed back on the apples-to-apples idea that allowing a universal DH is a giveback by MLB, matched by the players agreeing to expanded playoffs. The players see the potential for a financial windfall for the owners in expanded playoffs, much more than having 15 National League teams employ a designated hitter. The union is also wary of expanded playoffs because it might not be an incentive for owners to compete if their chances of making the playoffs increase.
Talks between MLB and the players were frequently acrimonious last May and June before the season finally took shape and was completed with a few COVID-19 hiccups.
The season’s successful completion, plus the fact the NFL, NHL, and NBA are playing, has stiffened the resolve of the powerful players union to play a complete season.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Feb 1, 2021 11:24:53 GMT -5
What would a delayed season mean for the Red Sox?
A later start date. Duh.
By Matt_Collins@MattRyCollins Feb 1, 2021, 9:01am EST
On Sunday, we learned of a proposal from the league to the players to get the season pushed back by a month. The reasoning for the proposal can be found in the link, as well as the reason it is unlikely to happen, at least in its current form. Nothing is set in stone, though, and it is possible that the union does send a counter offer today or tomorrow and real talks progress that end up with the season being pushed back to May. As I say in the linked post, there is a societal good argument for delaying the season and hoping things are more under control by the time May rolls around and teams start traveling then. That doesn’t mean the players are responsible for bearing all responsibility there and they have to take a bad deal for them, but the door is not completely closed even if I’d still bet against it happening.
The societal good portion of this is the most important aspect of any of this discussion for most of us, as we aren’t members of the union nor do we reap the benefits of extra revenue gained from having more fans in the parks for a greater percentage of the season. We’re not kidding ourselves, though. These are the things that are most important to the parties involved. With that being said, though, there are superficial reasons for us as fans to care about as well, and the season being potentially delayed would have some positive and negative effects for the Red Sox.
We’ll start with the good, which starts first and foremost with Chris Sale. For all of the talk of the Red Sox rotation right now, Sale still looms large in the big picture with his return expected at some point in the summer. He’s already suffered one minor setback, and the team is expected to be cautious, so the exact timeline is not yet certain. In a normal season, a safe bet would be for him to miss at least half the year. For a Red Sox team that needs a whole lot to go right, particularly on the pitching side of things, it is not ideal to play so much of the season without their best pitcher.
A delayed season would obviously mean he misses less time, though. Now, the proposal condenses the schedule a bit so it wouldn’t be a full extra month with Sale as compared to the normal schedule, but it would still be a greater percentage of the season with him theoretically being healthy. Any extra rotation turns with Sale involved is better than the alternative for this team.
This delay would also benefit someone like Eduardo Rodriguez, who is one of the biggest question marks on the team this year. The lefty missed the 2020 season after testing positive for COVID and developing myocarditis as a result of the virus. It was a scary situation, and Rodriguez wasn’t even able to walk on a treadmill until shortly after the season. By all accounts he’s been progressing well this winter and the expectation is that he’ll be ready for the April 1 start date that is expected to happen at this point. That’s great, but the team will also want to take things slow as a heart condition is clearly nothing to play around with. Getting another month for him to ramp up and for the team to have that much more clarity on his conditioning level is better for the team on the field, and more importantly better for his health.
And then there’s the simple fact that more lead time for the season gives Chaim Bloom and company more time to work phones and shape the roster that much more before the season. Maybe that extra months leads someone to giving up more for Andrew Benintendi. Or maybe the possibility of having more fans at Fenway this year would make them more willing to go after someone like Kris Bryant or another player whose salary could currently be seen as prohibitive.
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So those would all be positives for the Red Sox, but a potentially delayed season wouldn’t be all roses. And really, the downsides to me come down to the way the schedule would work out. The proposal from the league includes eight fewer games but in roughly three fewer weeks than a normal schedule. In other words, there would be fewer off-days and more doubleheaders. That brings about two issues for Boston. One is injury risk. We’ve talked ad nauseam about the injury risks in Boston’s rotation, most notably with Nathan Eovaldi and Garrett Richards. Giving them fewer chances for a day off in the season seems awfully likely to catch up with them at some point in the summer. Their relative health is a major key to this season, and a condensed schedule would only hurt those chances.
And then there’s just the depth in general. By and large, the rotation depth looks much better than it did last year, and there are legitimate options who are not likely to start the year in the major-league rotation including Tanner Houck, Matt Andriese and Garrett Whitlock, among others. But this comparison to last year is, well, in comparison to last year. That’s not really a high bar, and having to lean more on depth pitching is not a good thing for this team.
The bullpen would be leaned on more as well. I’m a bit higher on this unit than most, I think, but more doubleheaders means everyone’s role is going to be that much more important because more relievers will be needed. I think, for example, Ryan Brasier and Colten Brewer can be fine middle relievers. If the schedule necessitates semi-consistent late-inning appearances from them, the Red Sox are not in a good position.
At the end of the day this is all mostly theoretical as it would appear unlikely any of this is going to come to fruition. The expectation is the players just reject the current offer and go about their business with things starting as scheduled. But nothing is over until its over, and there are probably at least some players who would like to consider a counter offer. A delayed season is on the table at least until it is not, and if it does come to fruition the Red Sox will get some good and some bad out of it. But the way I look at it, the good of having more recovery time and more roster-building time would be a benefit for everyone, and just like last year depth would be king. That is not a great thing for Boston.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Feb 2, 2021 4:38:21 GMT -5
MLB statement on '21 Spring Training, season
February 1, 2021
Major League Baseball issued the following statement this evening:
“On the advice of medical experts, we proposed a one-month delay to the start of Spring Training and the regular season to better protect the health and safety of players and support staff. A delay of the season would allow for the level of COVID-19 infection rates to decrease and additional time for the distribution of vaccinations, as well as minimizing potential disruptions to the 2021 season that currently face all sports.
“The offer included starting the regular season on April 29th and playing a 154-game schedule that would pay players in full as if playing 162 games. We also proposed two changes from the 2020 season that were overwhelmingly popular with our fans – for this season only, featuring a modified expanded Postseason (seven teams per League) and the universal designated hitter rule.
“This was a good deal that reflected the best interests of everyone involved in the sport by merely moving the calendar of the season back one month for health and safety reasons without impacting any rights either the players or the Clubs currently have under the Basic Agreement or Uniform Player’s Contract for pay and service time.
“In light of the MLBPA’s rejection of our proposal, and their refusal to counter our revised offer this afternoon, we are moving forward and instructing our Clubs to report for an on-time start to Spring Training and the Championship Season, subject to reaching an agreement on health and safety protocols. Our 2020 season taught us that when the nation faces crisis, the national game is as important as ever, and there is nothing better than playing ball. We were able to complete a 2020 season through Herculean efforts and sacrifices made by our players, Club staff and MLB staff to protect one another. We will do so again, together, as we work towards playing another safe and entertaining season in 2021.”
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Feb 2, 2021 5:04:15 GMT -5
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We all have calendars. Yet somehow MLB and the MLBPA don’t get around to figuring out spring training until the evening of Feb. 1? Lurching from one disagreement to the next serves what purpose? Their focus is always on the battle it seems instead of what best serves the sport.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Feb 2, 2021 14:39:05 GMT -5
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#RedSox spring details:
* Truck Day: Feb. 8
* Pitchers+catchers: Feb. 17
* Full-squad: Feb. 22
* Workouts closed to public
* Home game capacity: 2,400
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Feb 2, 2021 14:43:20 GMT -5
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#RedSox spring training dates:
- Truck Day, Feb. 8
- First workout, Feb. 17
- First full-squad workout, Feb. 22
- First game vs. Pittsburgh, Feb. 27
- Last game vs. Atlanta, March 30
All workouts will be closed to the public. No facility tours available.
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Post by Kimmi on Feb 2, 2021 17:42:08 GMT -5
Bill Koch
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#RedSox spring training dates:
- Truck Day, Feb. 8
- First workout, Feb. 17
- First full-squad workout, Feb. 22
- First game vs. Pittsburgh, Feb. 27
- Last game vs. Atlanta, March 30
All workouts will be closed to the public. No facility tours available. |
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Feb 3, 2021 7:40:36 GMT -5
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Feb 5, 2021 3:51:15 GMT -5
Going south for Red Sox spring training might just be for the birds this year
By Michael Silverman Globe Staff,Updated February 4, 2021, 8:23 p.m.
A great southerly migration takes place over the Eastern seaboard each February and March, when Red Sox fans from New England flock to Fort Myers, Fla., for spring training.
Flight plans this year, however, are being scuttled.
With the backfields behind JetBlue Park closed, with capacity at the ballpark capped at 24 percent and with the risk of catching COVID-19 when infection rates are too high and vaccination rates are too low, spring training in 2021 looks as if it will be left mostly to the locals of Lee County.
Red Sox fans, except for one from Dorchester, want to just wait till next year.
“Everything revolves around being out on the backfields,” said Lorraine Reagan, 57, of Norwood, who flies to Florida for a couple of weeks each year with her sister. “That closeness you have around the benches, being around the players’ families, that will be taken away. We won’t be going if there’s no real access to the backfields.”
Jose Ramirez’s streak of 21 consecutive Red Sox spring training visits will end this year. He is still flying to Fort Myers, but he left Thursday, well before players report and workouts that are closed to the public begin.
He doesn’t want to be near JetBlue Park at any crowd capacity.
“Even if I had the vaccine, I wasn’t sure I was ready mentally to make that leap and get into a crowd like that right away,” said Ramirez, 50, from Tewksbury.
Dave Shedd, 56, from Wilmington, wanted to head down to make up for last year, when the game he had tickets for got canceled because of the pandemic.
But he correctly predicted in the fall that his luck would not be any better this spring.
“We pulled the plug on that in November — I just didn’t see how they were going to have people in the park down there,” said Shedd, who said he might make a trip to Florida anyway because he could use the break, but he’ll stay away from any spring training camp.
“It’s the whole atmosphere — just walking around the backfields, we hang out at the park all day, we stay late. I just don’t see that we’re going to be close to that for a long time. It’s hard enough to get a ticket as it is, and if you have limited seating, you’re not going to get the full experience you usually do.”
David Wilson, formerly from Marshfield, meets his brother and friend each spring, but as he wrote in an e-mail, “We love our annual pilgrimage, but do you know of anyone who went to Florida who didn’t bring back COVID?
“This year we are going to pass. Wait for the vaccine to hit the 40-year-old group and continue our tradition next year.”
Fort Myers is braced for the stream of spring training attendees to return to normal this spring.
Just 216 flights between Logan Airport and Southwest Florida International Airport are scheduled for this month, compared with 290 a year ago, a 26 percent drop, with March scheduled flights in March numbering 261 compared with 342 last March, a 24 percent decrease, according to Lee County Port Authority data.
The total number of passengers arriving at and departing from the Fort Myers airport reached record numbers last January and February before falling off the last 10 months, winding up on the year at 5.99 million passengers, 41 percent less than 2019.
Like most of Florida, tourism in southwestern Florida is vital, with the Grapefruit League slate of games offered by Red Sox and Minnesota Twins (who also play in Fort Myers) just one of many revenue streams. According to the most recent study conducted by the Lee County Visitor and Convention Bureau, a sporting event was listed at just 7 percent as a reason to travel to the county, with just 11 percent of tourists actually attending an event, which ranks below shopping, golf, tennis, photography and the big three of rest and relaxation, heading for the beach and visiting friends and relatives.
A 2019 study by the Lee County Sports Development office found that Red Sox and Twins spring training attendees inject $68.9 million into the local economy, with $56.7 million spent outside the two ballparks. Close to 1,000 jobs are directly supported by spring training, with a total job impact of 1,090. The study showed roughly 40 percent of spring training attendees are returnees, with two out of three saying they definitely or probably would return the next season.
When MLB canceled spring training last March 12, “it was like the lights were shut off,” said Kevin Ruane, chairman of the Lee Board of County Commissioners and former county Tourist Development Council members. “We understood, even prematurely, that it was going to have dramatic impacts on bed taxes, sales taxes on purchasing and overall cash in the local economy. It was just devastating.”
And while Ruane acknowledges that “this season will be a little softer obviously than prior seasons,” he said that the county still expects tourists to head for the beaches and warmer weather. The relief from MLB’s announcement earlier this week that spring training will begin was real, said Ruane. If there are fewer tourists arriving from the Northeast and the Midwest because of COVID-19 fears, there are plenty of local fans to fill the limited seats.
“Tickets will be a hot commodity,” said Ruane. “It’s so much better than what we went through last year with such a limited season that we had. It just feels like we need something positive.”
That positive note just happens to be echoed by the mind-set of one New Englander, James Marcellus, 32, of Dorchester.
After having to cancel plans last year for his first spring training visit, Marcellus is not going to let the pandemic stand in the way of him flying down to see a Red Sox game as close to his late March birthday as possible.
“As long as that game is happening and they’re allowing people to go, I’ll for sure be there,” said Marcellus. “With all the information we have now about COVID-19, I think I can be responsible enough to not be fearful and enjoy a game — I know some people feel differently.”
Marcellus figured he would be in the minority with his thinking. He also figured there would be tickets available, but he realized he had not accounted for the high demand.
“I’m 99 percent sure — the only way I wouldn’t go would be if there weren’t tickets or they cancel the games altogether,” said Marcellus, who brightened at the prospect that perhaps someone associated with the Red Sox would read to the end of a story about one New Englander clamoring to see his favorite team play in spring training for the first time and could help ensure Marcellus’s flight would not be in vain.
“That would be awesome,” said Marcellus. “Put this on the front page!”
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Feb 5, 2021 9:45:23 GMT -5
With spring training on horizon, baseball is once again back on deck (Editorial)
Updated 9:33 AM; Today 9:33 AM
By The Republican Editorials
Baseball fans who don’t much care for any other sport are nonetheless still attuned to the coming of the Super Bowl each year, if only because the completion of the big game means that spring training is just around the corner.
Though the winter may grind on and on, the dispiriting snow and cold boosting few people’s moods, there comes a point in February that provides something to look forward to: the date when your favorite team’s pitchers and catchers report to spring training.
Once that happens, of course, position players are right on their heels, with exhibition games soon enough in the offing.
It’s always special, but the coming season will offer even more than usual.
Back in 1984, a number of essays by sportswriter and columnist Thomas Boswell were collected in a book titled “Why Time Begins On Opening Day.” It was a metaphor, of course, but during our pandemic era, it seems as much reality as figure of speech. For a true-blue baseball fan, each winter is long and cold and lonely. No box scores. No radio broadcasts. No baseball on TV. Nothing except maybe a bit of hope provided by a free-agent signing or an offseason trade.
But eventually, as the days grow longer and the snow finally recedes, comes a day that really ought to stand as our unofficial national holiday: opening day of baseball season.
For those who know in their hearts what it means to say that time begins on opening day, recalling what transpired last year -- or didn’t transpire, more accurately -- is to remember a joyless spring that was no season of renewal.
Time may not literally have stopped, but it surely felt as though it had.
Not so this year, though.
Though every last detail hasn’t been fully worked out, there’s every reason to believe that we are getting set for a full, 162-game season. With the good old rules, too. (No designated hitter in the National League. And no runner on second base for the start of each half inning after the 9th when a game is tied at the completion of regulation. Thank goodness.)
Putting the pandemic behind us won’t come suddenly, like flipping a switch. But to have baseball again -- the normalcy of it, the everydayness of it -- will surely be a great help.
Play ball!
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Feb 6, 2021 5:00:11 GMT -5
Red Sox to live stream Truck Day presented by JetBlue on Red Sox social media channels At 1:30 p.m. Monday
February 5th, 2021
BOSTON, MA – On Monday, February 8, the Red Sox and JetBlue will live stream the departure of the equipment truck beginning at 1:30 p.m. on Red Sox social media channels before its 1,480-mile trip to the club’s Spring Training home at JetBlue Park in Fort Myers, Florida. The loading process for the Red Sox equipment truck will begin around 7 a.m. with an estimated departure time of 2 p.m.
To help prevent the spread of COVID-19, fans are asked not to gather at Fenway Park and instead watch the 30-minute special, hosted by Red Sox radio broadcaster Will Flemming. The show will feature live interviews with Red Sox players and coaches, including newly acquired right-handed pitcher Garrett Richards, and bench coach Will Venable.
This will be the 24th straight year that Milford native Al Hartz will drive the 53-foot truck, which will carry an assortment of baseball equipment and supplies, including:
20,400 baseballs
1,100 bats
200 batting gloves
200 batting helmets
320 Batting Practice tops
160 white game jerseys
300 pairs of pants
400 t-shirts
400 pairs of socks
20 cases of bubble gum
60 cases of sunflower seeds
The celebration of Truck Day has been a Red Sox tradition since 2003 signaling the unofficial start of Spring Training. JetBlue, the official airline of the Red Sox, has been the presenting sponsor of the annual event since 2010. Moving services are provided by New England Household Moving & Storage.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Feb 7, 2021 14:22:53 GMT -5
Boston Red Sox Truck Day 2021: Garrett Richards, Will Venable to be interviewed via social media during virtual event Monday
Updated 1:24 PM; Today 1:24 PM
By Christopher Smith | csmith@masslive.com
The Boston Red Sox will celebrate Truck Day virtually Monday.
The team is asking fans not to gather outside Fenway Park while the equipment truck is being loaded due to COVID-19. Instead, the Red Sox will go live on their social media channels at 1:30 p.m. The truck is expected to leave around 2 p.m.
The live show will include interviews with Red Sox players and coaches, including newly-signed starting pitcher Garrett Richards and bench coach Will Venable, according to a press release. Red Sox radio broadcaster Will Flemming will be the host.
The Red Sox officially signed Richards on Wednesday. His four-seam fastball averaged 95.1 mph in 2020, ranking him in the 82nd percentile among all major league pitchers in fastball velocity, per Baseball Savant. His fastball spin rate was in the 97th percentile among MLB pitchers and his curveball spin rate was in the 99th percentile (Statcast).
“I’m not getting any younger, and at this point in my career, winning becomes a main factor in decision-making on where I want to play,” Richards said during a Zoom call Wednesday “Obviously, a historic franchise like the Red Sox having interest in me and showing that they really wanted me to come play for them made me want to come play for them. I think it works on both ends. They showed a lot of interest and were sincere. I looked at it, like a challenge, playing in that division, but also knowing I was going to a team that’s going to score runs and have a lot of fun. These guys always look like they’re having a blast. Those are the kind of teams I want to be a part of.”
Items being loaded onto the truck include:
~ 20,400 baseballs
~ 1,100 bats
~ 200 batting gloves
~ 200 batting helmets
~ 320 Batting Practice tops
~ 160 white game jerseys
~ 300 pairs of pants
~ 400 T-shirts
~ 400 pairs of socks
~ 20 cases of bubble gum
~ 60 cases of sunflower seeds
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Feb 8, 2021 8:22:36 GMT -5
Monday Is Red Sox Truck Day — The Unofficial Start Of Spring Training
February 8, 2021 at 4:30 am
BOSTON (CBS) — If you’re looking for a sign that spring is near, look no further than Fenway Park. Monday is Red Sox Truck Day, marking the unofficial start of spring training.
The Red Sox’ equipment truck will be packed up outside of Fenway Park all morning, and the begin its 1,480-mile journey to JetBlue Park in Fort Myers, Florida later this afternoon. Crews will begin the loading process around 7 a.m., with the truck set to depart at 2 p.m.
Here’s a quick rundown of what will be loaded up and make its way down to Fort Myers:
20,400 baseballs
1,100 bats
200 batting gloves
200 batting helmets
320 batting practice tops
160 white game jerseys
300 pairs of pants
400 t-shirts
400 pairs of socks
20 cases of bubble gum
60 cases of sunflower seeds
This will be the 24th straight year that Milford native Al Hartz will drive the 53-foot truck from Boston to Fort Myers. The Truck Day tradition — which signifies the unofficial start of Red Sox Spring Training — has been a tradition for the team since 2003.
There is usually a pretty large gathering of Red Sox faithful on hand to wish the truck a safe journey, but fans are being asked not to gather outside the ballpark this year to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Red Sox pitchers and catchers will hold their first workout at JetBlue Park on Feb. 17, with the first full squad workout scheduled for Feb. 22.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Feb 8, 2021 10:02:32 GMT -5
Red Sox
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First sign of spring!
#TruckDay | @jetblue
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