Tom Werner backtracks on ‘full throttle’ remark as Red Sox fans express dissatisfaction.
It took Werner two months to realize that fans expected him to keep his promise.
Red Sox fans have been clinging to the words “full throttle” all offseason.
“Full throttle” was a light at the end of the tunnel, the last drop of rain in the desert, the closest thing to a promise that New Englanders had to look forward to when the Boston winter let up into spring. It felt like a competent Red Sox team was on the horizon.
Maybe the Red Sox wouldn’t crawl out of last place in the American League East. Fans thought they could explode into the 2024 season with a new-look squad and a refreshed attitude towards spending money.
How naïve the believers were.
Fenway Sports Group Chairman Tom Werner said the Red Sox would be going “full throttle” this offseason at the introductory presser of new Chief Baseball Officer Craig Breslow in November. And it took him this long to take it back.
“Maybe that wasn’t the most artful way of saying what I wanted to say,” Werner told Sean McAdam of MassLive.
When Werner said “full throttle,” he meant it on just one front: the team competed for Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s services, and when he signed somewhere else, the offseason was over. And fans’ dreams of a competitive Red Sox team died with it.
