ESPN’s Scott Lauber reports that the Red Sox have exercised their 2018 option on manager John Farrell. President of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski said that “players played hard for him” and cited the skipper’s “solid presence.”
Farrell, 54, has a 339-309 (.523) record in four seasons at the helm in Boston. He led the Red Sox to a championship in his first season with the club in 2013 and led them back to the playoffs this past season, ultimately swept out of the ALDS by the Indians.
The Red Sox made the deicsion to bring Farrell back for the 2017 season shortly after the team was pushed out of the playoffs in October.
