BOSTON -- His cancer now in remission, Red Sox manager John Farrell is ready to get back to work with "no restrictions."
In fact, Farrell will board a plane for Arizona on Saturday morning for five days of meetings with president of baseball of operations Dave Dombrowski and several other evaluators from the club to start plotting the course for the offseason.
Farrell is grateful and relieved that he can take full part after a trying few weeks in which he recovered from Stage 1 lymphoma.
"I am really excited about getting back to work and not having to lay in an infusion bed, which was needed for a couple of months," said Farrell, sounding upbeat and energetic in a Friday conference call with reporters.