Expect a lot of reminiscing in the next two weeks — the 20th anniversary of the Red Sox’ landmark World Series win is almost upon us. There’s a Netflix documentary that will be released next week, and plenty of media outlets will salute the anniversary by revisiting the events of October 2004. In many ways, the Red Sox barely resemble the organization that stormed back from a 3-0 deficit to the Yankees in the ALCS before sweeping the St.
Louis Cardinals to capture their first title in 86 years. Few people associated with the organization remain. Of the players, only Jason Varitek is employed full-time by the team.
A few others — Pedro Martinez and David Ortiz included — are special assistants and goodwill ambassadors. A few more — Kevin Youkilis, Kevin Millar and Lenny DiNardo — serve as broadcasters. Tragically, Tim Wakefield and Dave McCarty have passed away.
On the management side, a handful of executives in the current Baseball Operations department — Brian O’Halloran, Eddie Romero Jr., and Raquel Ferreira — were with the organization then, and an in odd twist that few could have foreseen, Theo Epstein, the team’s GM and architect, is now a limited partner. The Sox have since employed four managers since Terry Francona: Bobby Valentine, John Farrell, Alex Cora and Ron Roenicke.
They’ve also had four subsequent heads of baseball ops: Ben Cherington, Dave Dombrowski, Chaim Bloom and Craig Breslow. In fact, the strongest, most obvious connection to th.