FORT MYERS, Fla., Feb. 24 (UPI) -- Boston Red Sox manager Terry Francona Sunday signed a three-year contract extension through the 2011 season.
The deal, worked out at the spring training site in Fort Myers, Fla., also gives the team an option to extend it for the 2012 and 2013 seasons.
He has managed the Red Sox since December 2003 and helped end Boston's 86-year World Series title drought in 2004 by sweeping the St. Louis Cardinals.
Then last season, he won his second World Series with a four-game sweep of Colorado.
"Terry Francona has done an outstanding job in managing the Red Sox over the last four seasons," team Executive Vice President and General manager Theo Epstein said. "This is demonstrated not only in the three playoff appearances and two World Series victories but also in the way in which he handles the demands of managing in Boston on a day-to-day basis, both on and off the field. It also represents a strong and sincere commitment by our ownership."
