FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Chris Young loves the "weirdness" of the dimensions at Fenway Park. He loves the energy of an electric Boston Red Sox crowd that knows its baseball. He loves the history and the idea of patrolling the same turf that Ted Williams, Carl Yastrzemski, Jim Rice, Fred Lynn and Dwight Evans once did.
"And the short left-field porch isn't too bad, either," he said Sunday morning after reporting to the Fenway South complex for his first day with the Red Sox.
This is important, because Young likely will be peppering -- or clearing -- The Green Monster with regularity.