Reports abound that Worcester-area native
J.P. Ricciardi may be joining the Red Sox front office—if he is passed over as Mets GM. Ricciardi did a decent job with a cash-constrained Blue Jays organization—going 642 and 651 (a pedestrian .496 winning percentage) over 8 years in Toronto. This is probably a good move, although on the list of things that need to be re-vamped in this organization, J.P.'s employment is just a tad below adding more annoying "Green" police wandering the aisles for plastic bottles (and getting in the way of the action).