Nick Cafardo of The Boston Globe stated, “A great injustice in Red Sox history was corrected this week when Red Sox chairman Tom Werner called Wade Boggs to tell him his No. 26 will be retired in a ceremony May 26 at Fenway Park.” This call means that Holt will need to change his number, which has been announced will be No. 12.
Cafardo suggests that the decision was made to bury the long-standing hatchet with Boggs because he “is also negotiating a possible role with the team, which might include being a spring training hitting coach much like Ted Williams and Carl Yastrzemski did.