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Will Red Sox moves pay off? Millar sure to help in clubhouse.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Kevin Baxter
FORT MYERS, Fla. _ In an offseason in which the White Sox got Bartolo Colon, the Phillies signed Jim Thome, the Mets added Cliff Floyd and Tom Glavine and the Marlins picked up Ivan Rodriguez, the most important acquisition might have involved a player no one in this hemisphere seemed to want two months ago.
In winning his high-profile tug-of-war with Japan's Chunichi Dragons for the rights to former Marlin Kevin Millar, Boston's wunderkind general manager, Theo Epstein, might finally have found the one piece missing from the Red Sox championship puzzle.
For years, Boston has had enough firepower to win the World Series, but it lacked a fuse. No more. Millar is the anti-Carl Everett, a .296 lifetime hitter whose contribution in the clubhouse far outweighs his contribution on the field.
That is why Epstein risked an international incident and public scorn to get him.
``Chemistry is big,'' Millar said Thursday after his first spring-training game, a 4-2 loss to Minnesota in which he drove in a ninth-inning run. ``It's not just talent, but a lot of team chemistry. And that's once thing I do bring to the clubhouse.
``I wasn't a big-name guy. And I think that was all part of their plan. I think they said, `Let's get a baseball player in here.' ''
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