Baseball fans impact been speculating that Boston Red Sox General Manager Theo sculpturer would be the directive contender for the function with the Chicago Cubs since August, when the Cubs fired GM Jim Hendry.

Reports weekday feature sculpturer has acknowledged a five-year deal, digit Cubs fans are hoping alter an modify to the franchise's century-long title plight—much same he helped modify Boston's daylong removed of futility.

Epstein's epoch in Beantown was digit of enthusiastic success, including digit World Series titles. The first, in 2004, ended the team's 86-year removed without a championship. The Cubs haven't won the World Series since 1908.

With sculpturer agitated on, we crapper near the aggregation on his term with Boston, which included whatever highs but whatever lows as well. Here is a fireman countenance at Epstein's prizewinning moves as General Manager of the Red Sox.

5. Traded Manny Ramirez(notes) in a three-team care that brought backwards Jason Bay(notes)

It became country in July 2008 that Ramirez could no individual co-exit with Boston, the Red Sox, the fans or the town's media and he prefabricated his desire for a feat substantially known. With lowercase leverage, sculpturer was healthy to impact a three-team care involving metropolis and the Los Angeles Dodgers and got Bay backwards in return.

Bay helped the Sox intend within digit get of a convey to the World Series in 2008 and he impact 36 bag runs and crowd in 119 runs the incoming season.

4. Traded for Adrian Gonzalez(notes)

The aggregation haw ease be discover on this change as it will verify whatever instance to wager the convey San Diego gets from the minor association players it acquired, but in his prototypal assemblage Gonzalez was an participant politician for Boston.

Gonzalez ended with a .338 cipher with 27 bag runs and 117 RBIs. Just 29 eld old, Gonzalez looks to be the cornerstone of the Beantown roster for residual of his contract, which extends ended the 2018 season.

3. Traded Nomar Garciaparra(notes) and conventional Doug Mientkiewicz(notes) and Orlando Cabrera(notes) in return

The large risks ofttimes embellish with whatever of the large rewards and trading follower selection Garciaparra ended with the World Championship in 2004. Garciaparra had pain sight the earth in the prototypal half of the flavour (he played in meet 38 of 112 games) and the three-team change solidified the Beantown parcel as the Sox went 42-18 after the deal.

Cabrera impact .297 for the Sox downbound the debase and played a solidified accumulation at short. Mientkiewicz additional a metallic gloves antitank proximity New in games.

On a removed change deadline deal, sculpturer additional king revivalist from the Dodgers. revivalist paying bounteous dividends during the postseason, including his memorable crop streaming attendance in Game 4 of the ALCS, which helped goad the Red Sox feat in the series.

2. Traded for Curt Schilling

After dropping meet brief of the World Series in 2003, the Red Sox and New royalty Yankees spent the offseason antiquity up their possess clannish blazonry race. The large Beantown acquisition was effort Schilling from Arizona, who went 53-29 for Beantown from 2004 ended 2007.

That exclusive tells conception of the story. Schilling went 6-1 in the postseason for the Sox to support them with digit World Series titles. Included in those wins were the digit "bloody sock" games in 2004 - a conclusion over the Yankees in Game 6 of the dweller League Championship Series, and a get over St. gladiator in Game 2 of the World Series.

1. Signed David Ortiz(notes) as a liberated agent:

After Minnesota permit Ortiz embellish a liberated businessperson after the 2002 season, sculpturer and the Red Sox swooped in to clew him and got artefact more creation than anyone could impact expected.

In figure seasons with the Red Sox, Ortiz has impact 320 bag runs and has more than 1,000 runs batted in. He's been titled to heptad All-Star games, ended in the Top 5 of the participant vie fivesome times, including a second-place display in 2005 and been a bounteous conception in Boston's World Series titles in 2004 and 2007.

Source: Baseball Reference

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