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Red Sox rookie Travis Shaw: 'I won't worry about Hanley Ramirez'

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CHICAGO—David Ortiz had a message for Travis Shaw when he summoned him over to his locker for what turned into a 15-minute chat last week at Fenway Park.

“I told him, ‘These next six weeks may be the one chance you get in your whole career,’’’ the old man of the Red Sox said he told the 25-year-old rookie first baseman.