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...This is for everyone who played for the Red Sox, who's rooted for the Red Sox, whose relatives rooted for the Red Soxit is so much bigger than the 25 guys in this clubhouse," enthused Boston's general manager Theo Epstein as his team sprayed champagne around the clubhouse after sweeping the St. Louis Cardinals in four games. Just 30 years young, Epstein is living every Boston fan's childhood fantasy, leading the team he has rooted forand suffered withto that long-elusive championship. "In New England," he said, eyes welling, "this is life...
...Ortiz, Epstein acquired a perfect clubhouse presence. Dissatisfied with his work ethic and production, the Minnesota Twins cut Papi, as Ortiz is known, after the 2002 season. Epstein saw value. "We spoke to a lot of people about David," says the GM. "Everyone said he was part of the heart and soul of that Minnesota team, that he was the kind of guy you'd love playing with...
...Nation. "To be honest, since Red Sox fans are so intense and baseball's a long, 162-game season, it helped that this team was as loose as it was. If this team was as intense as its fans, it could have been too serious, too overbearing for everyone." Epstein found the right manager too in Terry Francona, a laid-back personality who sometimes sounds like a bewildered father of 25 teenagers...
...year after taking over, Henry and his CEO, Larry Lucchino, handed the team's reins to Epstein, the then 28-year-old assistant general manager. A Yalie who had grown up a mile from Fenway, Epstein was a data freak who did a sabermetric analysis on everyone in spikes. By the time he was finished dealing, Epstein had replaced 16 of Boston's 25 players. Before the 2004 season, he tried to pull off a stunning coup by bringing superstar shortstop Alex Rodriguez to Beantown. The deal fell apart, and Rodriguez eventually landed in New York. But Epstein had other...
...from Montreal. Trading Garciaparra was risky. He was a baseball Brahmin, descended from the line of Boston icons that included Ted Williams and Carl Yastrzemski. But Garciaparra had been unsettled since the Sox tried to land Rodriguez. It was a gutsy, initially unpopular trade, but it worked out. Says Epstein: "One thing about our ownership--they're not afraid to look stupid...