“He did everything possible in the offseason. He killed it,” Alex Cora said of Grissom ( via Christopher Smith ). “We asked him to show up at 220 [pounds]. He showed up at 221. He turned the double play well. There’s a few things that we talk [about] that I think he can do better defensively. Just go down there and do your thing.”

Manager Alex Cora discussed the conversation he had with Vaughn Grissom after the Red Sox optioned the second baseman to Worcester.

The team wanted him to gain weight, ideally arriving at camp at 220 pounds. Grissom came in at 221. He worked exclusively at second base after spending the previous offseason learning left field in a crash course before being traded by the Braves to the Red Sox and shifting back to second.