Larry Lucchino can be meddlesome and argumentative.
He rubs some people the wrong way.
He can be a bully, a tyrant, a needler.
He’s also the single most important employee in the history of the Boston Red Sox.
Think back to the spring of 2002, when the Red Sox were handed over to a new ownership group headed by John Henry and Tom Werner. Here were two rich, intelligent, powerful, lovers of baseball who had grand ideas about resurrecting Boston’s big league ballclub, but what they needed was a seasoned baseball man, and one with a bulldog reputation, to run the shop.