Post by JoshSmithPwns on Mar 20, 2010 16:36:59 GMT -5
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Alan Embree emerged from the dugout wearing a Red Sox jersey with a familiar No. 43 on the back, looked around, and smiled.
"Fantasy camp,'' Embree said.
Indeed. The 40-year-old left-handed reliever, whose highlight reel moment with the Red Sox came when he leaped in the air after retiring Ruben Sierra on a tapper to Pokey Reese for the final out in Game 7 of the miraculous 2004 ALCS comeback against the Yankees, is back.
The Sox, who worked out Embree earlier this week at his home in Washington state, have signed Embree to a minor league deal, with an invitation to big-league camp. Embree, a free agent after the Rockies declined to exercise his $3 million option for 2010, almost certainly has the inside track on the second left-hander's spot in the Sox bullpen, behind Hideki Okajima.
Alan Embree emerged from the dugout wearing a Red Sox jersey with a familiar No. 43 on the back, looked around, and smiled.
"Fantasy camp,'' Embree said.
Indeed. The 40-year-old left-handed reliever, whose highlight reel moment with the Red Sox came when he leaped in the air after retiring Ruben Sierra on a tapper to Pokey Reese for the final out in Game 7 of the miraculous 2004 ALCS comeback against the Yankees, is back.
The Sox, who worked out Embree earlier this week at his home in Washington state, have signed Embree to a minor league deal, with an invitation to big-league camp. Embree, a free agent after the Rockies declined to exercise his $3 million option for 2010, almost certainly has the inside track on the second left-hander's spot in the Sox bullpen, behind Hideki Okajima.
