FORT MYERS — “How’s the rehab going?”
It’s a question asked all the time in professional sports. Of late, it’s uppermost in the minds of Red Sox fans fretting about the future, short-term and long-, of ace David Price. But what about the third base coach?
Excuse me?
The third base coach?
Players aren’t the only ones with bodies that break down. Knees that have spent 52 years in cleats pursuing a dream can give out, too, as have those of Brian Butterfield, the affable guru of the glove who has held down the third base coach’s box for the Red Sox going on five years now.