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- Gordon Edes, ESPN Staff Writer Close
- Has covered Red Sox for 15 years
- Award-winning beat reporter
- Joined ESPNBoston.com in 2009
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Twelve days before the July 31 trading deadline, Boston Red Sox vice president Allard Baird, one of general manager Ben Cherington's top lieutenants, was in Philadelphia Sunday afternoon, his visit coinciding with a start by Phillies left-hander Cole Hamels.