Boston Red Sox manager John Farrell revealed that doctors found Stage 1 lymphoma while doing his hernia surgery Monday in Detroit, and he will start treatment “in the coming days.”
Torey Lovullo will manage the team in Farrell’s place for the remainder of the 2015 season. Chemotherapy should take nine weeks, according to Farrell.
“Thankfully, it was detected in the hernia surgery,” Farrell told reporters Friday night at Fenway Park, where the Red Sox begin a three-game series against the Seattle Mariners.
Farrell said he was shocked when doctors informed him after the surgery that he had lymphoma.