Friday, February 2, 2018

Gator (NOT Mike Greenwell) Invades Sox Spring Camp

(Katie Haas Photo)
Each year, a few Red Sox players usually show up extra early in Fort Myers, Florida for Spring Training. Typically, they are either work-a-holic veterans or non-roster invitees—looking to get an extra edge. Today, however, a very unusual visitor showed up at Fenway South—an alligator. That's right, a gator—and it wasn't Mike Greenwell. When hearing about the visit, Red Sox center-fielder Jackie Bradley, Jr. intoned, "All I have to say is he better clean up those balls after he is done." Indeed!