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Ben Cherington Thinks Chris Carpenter Adds Value to Red Sox, Says Team Has Long Scouted Him

by NESN Staff on Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 8:10PM

Ben Cherington and the Red Sox have finally received some compensation for Theo Epstein's offseason departure. The Cubs sent right-handed flamethrower Chris Carpenter to the Red Sox in exchange for Chicago's new front-office executive.

The compensation package isn't quite finished yet, as a few players to be named later are still to be exchanged. But Cherington said that the Sox have scouted Carpenter since his college days and see a lot of potential in the reliever.

See Cherington's comments, as well as Peter Gammons' analysis on the compensation for Epstein, in the video above.