Article: RED SOX 2002; 2002 Red Sox may have (out)field of dreams; Three's a charm with Ramirez, Damon, Nixon in the field.(Sports)

From the moment the Red Sox shed themselves of an ever-fattening, trash-talking embarrassment named Carl Everett, the team's 2002 outfield was instantly made better. With slugging Manny Ramirez in left field and a burgeoning young star named Trot Nixon in right, the Sox could have put anybody in center field -- from Darren Lewis to Jerry Lewis -- and still had an outfield superior to any that featured C. Everett Kook.

But the Red Sox decided that the time-honored addition-by-subtraction route wasn't enough. For exactly one week after the Dec. 13 trade that sent Everett to the Texas Rangers for left-hander Darren Oliver, embattled, soon-to-get-the-gate general ...

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