John Farrell used to be the Boston Red Sox' pitching coach. Now he is the manager of the Toronto Blue Jays, under contract to them through 2013.
Red Sox negotiating with Blue Jays for John Farrell
The Red Sox are looking for a manager. They’d like their former pitching coach back. There’s a catch: he’s under contract to another team.
Tom Szczerbowski-US PRESSWIRE
The Red Sox have a managerial opening. They’d like Farrell to fill it. So the two teams are in negotiations for compensation to be sent to Toronto, per ESPN Boston:
“If they had this thing and it was that cut-and-dry easy for Toronto to pick somebody and the Red Sox were ready to give somebody up, this would have happened already,” one source said. “I don’t think it’s that difficult of a decision.”
The source guessed it would take a player or players of “substantial value” for the Jays to allow Farrell to go to a division rival, though the source did not have direct knowledge of the negotiations, which are taking place on multiple levels of each organization.
Boston has had formal interviews with four men for the vacant job: Los Angeles Dodgers third-base coach Tim Wallach, New York Yankees bench coach Tony Pena, San Diego Padres special assistant Brad Ausmus and Baltimore Orioles third-base coach DeMarlo Hale; Hale is a former Red Sox coach.
But Farrell appears to be the guy they want. When Boston attempted to get Farrell back for their open managerial position a year ago, reports were that the Jays wanted Daniel Bard and/or Clay Buchholz as compensation, and the Red Sox balked. The Jays, presumably, will hold out for that "substantial value", so this is by no means any sort of done deal.
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