WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — It’s all over, except for the announcement.
And just because manager John Farrell wants to take his usual sweet time before making it doesn’t mean I have to.
So I’ll make it.
Pablo Sandoval has nailed down the job as the starting third baseman for the Red Sox.
Sandoval’s weight loss and conditioning gains have paid off. He’s won an audition his pride and self-respect never should have made necessary in the first place.
At the hot corner, his relatively svelte upper half doesn’t loom over his lower half like a mushroom cap any more.