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A major league source just informed me that the Cleveland Indians are looking at Boston Red Sox pitching coach John Farrell as their next manager.
The Indians announced the firing of Eric Wedge yesterday, saying he would finish the season guiding the team this weekend in Boston.
Farrell has garnered a lot of accolades from Red Sox pitchers the past three seasons.
Farrell, who is on record as saying he’d like to manage in the big leagues, spent six seasons with the Indians as director of player development from 2001 through the 2006 season.
Two of those years — 2003 and 2004 — the Indians were tagged as the Organization of the Year by USA Today’s Sports Weekly and in 2003 Baseball America noted the Indians as having the top farm system in baseball under Farrell’s tutelage.
Farrell was in line to get an interview last winter for the vacant managerial position with the Pittsburgh Pirates. But he declined the interview saying he wanted to remain with the Red Sox another season.
Farrell was hired in 2001 in Cleveland by then new-GM Mark Shapiro, who remains on the job.