Sox players upset with Valentine hire?

Since Bobby Valentine was hired as the new manager of the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday numerous sources have surfaced saying the hiring was not popular among the team’s players. Valentine was always known as a no-nonsense manager during his 15 years with the Texas Rangers and the New York Mets, and is certainly not what would be termed a players’ manager. When Valentine was still just a candidate for the Red Sox job one source was asked what would happen if he was hired. The response was blunt: “They’re going to have a mess on their hands.” ESPN’s Buster Olney claims to have heard similar rumblings citing sources that claim some Red Sox players were upset that Valentine was even a candidate and that they have been “grumbling to each other, through texts and emails.” Valentine will be introduced at a press conference on Thursday. An additional reason for some discontent among the players is the fact that Valentine openly questioned ...