Article: PRO BASEBALL: Theo-logical move; Red Sox wanted a young GM with vision and they got him

Mike Fine

No, wise guy, Theo Epstein didn't have to jump off his Big Wheel when the call from Red Sox CEO Larry Lucchino came Sunday. The first person he told about his new job was not GI Joe, and the last person he saw before hitting the pillow with a smile on his face wasn't Raggedy Andy. This too-young-to-rule stuff is getting out of hand because, as Lucchino said about the 28-year-old Epstein, the new Sox general manager, "He'll be 29 in a month. Let's be fair." Ask Epstein, now the youngest GM in major league history, about being unqualified, and he'll ask, "Oh, you're skeptical about my age? Do you think I'm too old for the job? There's a difference between youthfulness and ...

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