Scott Boras

Thank you for all the hard work this off season, everybody.

On behalf of John and Linda Henry, who are here today, our Chairman Tom Warner and Mike Gordon, we want to welcome everybody and thank them for

the consistent support and the resources to make this transaction possible.

I want to thank Ranger and his family for your commitment to Boston.

And I want to especially thank Scott and his team at the Scott Boris Corporation.

It's always better to be sitting on the dais with Scott than on the phone.

And we are very appreciative of you and your team's efforts.

Huge thanks to Brez and Baseball Ops.

Big shout out to Brian O'Halloran who worked overtime on this one.

All the urgency and the commitment to getting this deal done was great to see.

It's been a very, very busy and long off season.

First off, I just want to say good morning to everyone.

Thank you all for being here.

First, I just want to give thanks to God for this new opportunity here with Boston.

I want to thank my family for their support.

I want to thank the ownership group, John, Sam, Craig, for this opportunity and just looking forward to putting my little grain of rice in what we're doing here.

Yeah, and I'm just really excited to be here with this team, the mix of young players with veteran players.

and i just want to thank scott thank louise uh for for being you know here with me through through this opportunity and and helping me through um this process thank you ranger we'll pause now for a brief photo opportunity ranger we have a hat and a jersey for you

I guess both from Craig and Scott's perspective, you say you started talking in November and just for it to finally come together a couple months later, what was the whole process like?

um first of all i want to thank john and tom who are always available always ready to do what they need to do to improve their team and brez i uh we've had a lot of dialogue over the course of this year and uh i want to thank brian and greg in our office because uh very essential parts of