The first move of the Winter Meetings for the Boston Red Sox was to pick up the 2018 option for Manager John Farrell.
This was a move one writer had suggested the Red Sox consider when they picked up the 2017 option after the season ended.
After the 2015 season, the Red Sox waited until February to pick up Farrell’s option for the following season. The state of the franchise is far more stable than it was in 2015 when they were coming off of a last place finish. Perhaps it is because Farrell is in more of a position of strength that the Red Sox and President of Baseball Operations Dave Dombrowski picked up two years of options so early in the offseason.